August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 39m
English
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Original Foreword
Imagine that Leonardo da Vinci, Tom Peters, and Robert Fulghum have co-authored a book on software development, and you’ll have an idea of what to expect in Jim McCarthy’s Dynamics of Software Development.
Jim’s book is a visionary, animated, and pragmatic guide to developing great software, maybe even historic software, on time. Every time. Almost. More important, Jim’s book is also about developing great software teams.
Jim McCarthy and I are partners. We work as part of a team that designs and develops software for Microsoft. Our software, Visual C++, is moderately successful by Microsoft standards. Hugely successful by anyone else’s standards. Since we first shooed version 1.0 out the door a little more than two years ago, ...