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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell
July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Microsoft Press
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Acknowledgments

Heartfelt thanks go first to Jack Litewka, the project editor, for making the creation of this book a thoroughly constructive and enjoyable experience. Thanks also go to Kim Eggleston for the book's design, to Michael Victor for the diagrams, and to Mark Monlux for the terrific illustrations. Sally Brunsman, David Clark, Susanne Freet, Dean Holmes, Wendy Maier, and Heidi Saastamoinen also helped this project go smoothly. Literally dozens of other people contributed to this book in one way or another; I didn't have personal contact with any of them, but I appreciate their contributions, too. (Chief among these, I am told, are layout artist Jeannie McGivern and production manager Jean Trenary of ArtSource and Microsoft Press's proof/copy-edit ...

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