An interesting read on the complexity and intransigence of software development. I kept thinking about parallels to the enterprise of public education, a similarly complex endeavor in which it is easy to get caught up in the mire, however strong the organization's conviction and drive might be at the outset. Since this particular project, Chandler, that Rosenberg picked ended up coming to naught after he finished his book, you can see him struggling a bit at the end to fit a tidy cap onto the proceedings. But he nicely captures what the innards of a promising but doomed software project looks like, as well as explores a few interesting tangents and arguments within the coding community that still has some relevance a decade later.