Paul Becker

Robert L. Glass

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Tom DeMarco

Glass explores a critical, yet strangely neglected, question: What is the role of creativity in software engineering and computer programming? With his trademark easy-to-read style and practical approach, backed by research and personal experience, Glass takes on a wide range of related angles and implications. (Computer Books)

Software Creativity 2.0

Andrew Hunt

The nearly 60 essays in this book--always easily digestible, often profound, and never too serious--take up large themes and important questions, never shying away from controversy. (Computer Books)

The Art and Science of Software Engineering

Software Conflict 2.0

Essays on the Art and Science of Software Engineering

Software Conflict

Many great advances in technology have resulted from risky experimentation, but it's critical to remember and study the spectacular failures that also resulted from some of those risks. Failures can be mundane, like the typical complaints of software projects that are behind schedule and over budget, while others can be much more extravagant. In Computing Calamities, Robert L. Glass has collected war stories from around the industry. Laugh at these mistakes, and learn from them. Someone else's failure could be the foundation of your success.

Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies that Failed

Computing Calamities

David N. Card

Measuring Software Design Quality

Examines sixteen software disasters, including the IRS modernization, and identifies six characteristics of projects likely to fail

Software Runaways

Johann Rost

Betrayal! Corruption! Software engineering? Industry experts Johann Rost and Robert L. Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering in this timely report on and analysis of the prevalance of subversion, lying, hacking, and espionage on every level of software project management. Based on the authors' original research and augmented by frank discussion and insights from other well-respected figures, The Dark Side of Software Engineering goes where other management studies fear to tread -- a corporate environment where schedules are fabricated, trust is betrayed, millions of dollars are lost, and there is a serious need for the kind of corrective action that this book ultimately proposes.

Robert L. Glass

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