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Managing "00": Surviving the Year 2000 Computing Crisis

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While I am a Year 2000 Project manager, I found this book interesting. It is a helpful guide to determine if the project is equipped with the appropriate staff to support those changes required to complete a year 2000 project. This is good reading for business managers and CIOs to help them understand what is required to staff the project adequately so that daily tracking and progress management can be delivered on a regular basis - esp. what with all the legal implications being forewarned about companies who have not started to address the century shift. I encourage the business managers worried with Year 2000 to pick this up if they haven't already

This is an excellent book that every computer professional should keep on their desk for the next several years. It is inspirational as well as informative, and it should be read seriously by anyone who has an honest desire to get a basic understanding of the Year 2000 computing problems, regardless of whether they have an inclination to accept the problem or not. This book helps to dispell the myths and focuses on the realities as well as opportunities related to this problem. Peter and Richard are the original Year 2000 experts and should be given a Nobel prize for bringing this problem to the attention of industry experts such as Gartner Group, and the U.S. Congress GAO and OMB. This book helps to prepare the reader for the fact that this little two-byte problem could have enormous consequences, and there will probably be some disasterous results if there are not enough programmers who care to volunteer for this Mission Impossible to be able to do all of the work that needs to be done. This book should be a starting point for Year 2000 awareness for the programmer or business executive who can't personally attend a Y2K seminar, but should be followed by one of the detailed technical solutions book such as those by Dr. Keith Jones and Dr. Leon Kappelman. All in all, this is the book you need to read first if you really want to understand what this problem is all about, and care about what happens to the rest of the world outside the four walls you live and work in

I speciallize in computer crisis management, and this book was full of false information and cliche'd conclusions. This book is a disgrace.