Product Description: Books on the topic of complexity and management have become numerous enough to fill several bookshelves in even a nonspecialist bookstore. This special issue of Emergence sorts through this sea of words and discern some meaning. It examines a collection of 34 books on the topic of complexity and management and cites the work of more than 100 authors...read more

Product Description: Three books are reissued for a limited time in a special boxed edition: "Software Project Survival Guide, Software Development", and "Debugging the Development Process". The trio are from the Best Practices series, emphasizing practical, process-oriented techniques and timeless tips...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author explains how he organized and supervised effective software development teams at the Microsoft company to come up with timely and high-quality commercial applications, offering a candid look at the group dynamics of software development. Original. (Advanced).

A Microsoft developer examines the problem of programming 'bugs,' showing how and where developers make mistakes along the development process and providing ways users can detect errors early. Original.