Risks

• Therac 25
• comp.risks

• What Factors Contributes to Successful Projects?
• What Factors Work Against Successful Projects?
• Techniques for design, debugging, testing, and maintenance.

• ISO 9000
• SEI (Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute) Software CMM (Capability Maturity Model)
• MS Certification
• PE Licensure
• Discussion: What are the benefits?

• Lifelong Learning
• Distance Education
• Certificate Programs
• New Software Engineering Code of Ethics (ACM & IEEE)

For more reading on the subject see:
 Edward Yourdan, Death March: The Complete Software Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects.
Prentice Hall, 1997.
 NASA Software Engineering Page
 Peter Neumann, Computer Related Risks. ACM Press, 1995.