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Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

A Formal Definition of Failure

Failure Patterns

The Dependability of a Software System

Known but Not Followed: Preventing Failure

Engineering Failures: Oversimplification

Execution Failures: Overruns under Pressure

Functional Failures

Ecosystem Failures: Uncoordinated Efforts within a Team

Changing Playing Fields Cause Unprecedented Failure

Faulty Leadership Causes Failures

Cascading Failures

Monitoring Systems

Reliability in Software

Accountability for Failure

Liability of Failure

Getting out of Failures

Product and Project Failures

Application of Systems Thinking in Software

The Law of Requisite Variety

Variety Is Relative

Matching Variety

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