Passages

In every larger-scale endeavor, or at least in most larger-scale endeavors, there comes a time to evaluate progress, solicit opinion, ask your public, survey your customers -- in short, to find out if what you are doing is actually worth doing. In some ...

Gerald M. Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition is this month's Passages selection. Weinberg died last August, but this book alone makes him immortal in the world of software engineering. The Psychology is one of ...

Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister's Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Third Edition) is a fairly famous book. The first edition was published in 1987, and it has been widely read ever since. I reviewed DeMarco and Lister's Waltzing with Bears in ...