Dynamics of Software Development

By Jacob Gundersen, Matthijs Hollemans, Steve Baranski, et al.

Shipping great software can be done, insists McCarthy, and charts, in five sections, the progress from initial design to successful product. McCarthy is a software industry veteran and the director of the Microsoft Visual C++ development group. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556158238
• ISBN13: 9781556158230
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Common Sense That Is Not So Common

This book delivers great insight into what goes on in software development. Although presented in the context of work performed on Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0, the author does a good job of generalizing specific experience. McCarthy gives us an honest look into the ups and downs without sugar coating or promising silver bullets.Presented in a format similar to Meyers' "Effective C++" books, the text flows very well and is a...

How to create high performance teams, great products

The title of the book, " 'Dynamics' of Sofware Development", describes very well how this book differs from the rest of Software Development Management books.If you are looking for Gantt charts and templates for software specs, there are other good books out there for you.This book is about the "Dynamics" of creating great software.If you want to learn how to channel the chaos of a software team (department, company)...

Astounding!

Someone truly understands this crazy world of software development. I could not be more impressed with a book - and guess what, it is language _and_ system independent. Not only this, it is for developers, engineers, QA engineers, technical writers and managers alike.This book provides such keen insight into the problems and complexities of full life cycle development and support, project management and system architectural...

Great for solving so-called high-tech labor shortage

You hear a lot today that talent is so scarce, esp. in the field of programming. Well, that's one of the biggest lies of our times. I've found Jim McCarthy's book extremely helpful in finding valuable characteristics programmers have. Programming is a lot more than just writing code and this book will help you see that. It'll encourage you to find out the other parts of software development and how people who may not...

Going crazy in the software development environment?

I'm not going crazy, the software development environment is really like this. Jim gave me the "rules" and terminology to communicate the challenges of this profession to my managers. This book created a common bond among the software developers on my team to help us through our projects. A must read for every software project manager and the whole team. (Also give a copy to your manager).