Software Runaways
by Robert L. Glass · first published 1997
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…Beck's book. It has some C#-specific material, but that stuff is interesting to read about even if you're working in other languages. Lot's good suggestions in this thread, here's one I didn't see: "Software Runaways - lessons learned from massive software project failures," by Robert L. Glass.
on “Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?” ↗Robert L. Glass has compiled a book of entertaining and instructive stories regarding the massive software project failures of our time: http://www.amazon.com/Software-Runaways-Monumental-Disasters... Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters. Anyone with an interest in the management of software projects should read it. The worst of these project failures, the…
on “Why 40-Year Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control” ↗…Productive Projects and Teams, DeMarco and Lister http://amzn.to/2qTu86F Programming Pearls, Bentley http://amzn.to/2sIRPe9 Software Process Design: Out of the Tar Pit, McGraw-Hill http://amzn.to/2rVX0v0 Software Runaways, Glass http://amzn.to/2qT2mHn Sorting and Searching, Knuth http://amzn.to/2qQ4NWQ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson and Sussman http://amzn.to/2qTflsk The Art of Unit Testing,…
on “Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?” ↗