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The 22nd anniversary of <strong>Ariane 5 Flight 501</strong> offers an opportunity to reflect upon software defects, project errors, and the best principles and practices for solution delivery in the IT industry. In this blog and my upcoming book, <strong>Bugs: A Short History of Software Imperfection</strong>, I will chronicle some important failures in the past, explain how we arrived at the present, and discuss some ideas for improving the future of software quality. As information technology becomes increasingly woven into Life, the quality of software impacts our commerce, health, infrastructure, military, politics, science, security, and transportation. The <strong>Big Idea</strong> is that we have no choice but to get better at delivering technology solutions because we have to.