Dynamics of Software Development, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank the men and women of the 1991–1995 AFX and Visual C++ Business Units at Microsoft Corporation, from whom I pirated many of the ideas in this book.

I’d also like to thank Mark Achler and Chuck Duff, formerly of the Whitewater Group, and Bob Gianni and Tom Collura, formerly of Bell Laboratories, for their involvement in my software development career.

Erin O’Connor, the editor of the original edition, has earned my respect and my gratitude for her vision, her contributions, and her patience.

Patrick McCarthy did great paintings for this book, paintings that are among the first I’ve seen that deal with the software development culture, the information culture. The illustrations alone can probably carry the book, ...