Product Description: Makes the most generally applicable insights from general systems theorists and from disciplinarians available to the widest audience possible. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of humorous difficulties with their solutions provides guidance in organizing thinking in order to efficiently solve problems (view table of contents)

Product Description: Systems analysis and design have solved many problems, but they have also created many problems. This unique book tackles crucial analysis and design issues that are glossed over in conventional texts. It recognizes that while many problems are solved with systems analysis and design, many problems are also created...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Consulting may be defined as the art of influencing people at their request. The Secrets of Consulting takes you behind the scenes of that art, explaining in detail why the world of consulting seems so irrational, and some very practical steps you can take to make it more rational...read more

Product Description: This landmark 1971 classic is reprinted with a new preface, chapter-by-chapter commentary, and straight-from-the-heart observations on topics that affect the professional life of programmers.Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer...read more

Product Description: Discover the one book nobody involved in this dynamic field can afford to miss! Weinberg offers readers an insider's view, with suggestions on how to become a better programmer and improve job performance, in a book that's both helpful and a pleasure to read! Learn how to * become a professional * get a little respect * survive in a bureaucracy * think more effectively * discover what kind of thinker you are * envision the future of the professional programmer...read more

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Product Description: In this first volume of the Quality Software Management series, Gerald M. Weinberg tackles the first requirement for developing quality software: learning to think correctly -- about problems, solutions, and quality itself. Guidelines on management are introduced to stimulate the kind of thinking needed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To produce high-quality software, we need high-quality, effective managers. Becoming such a manager is the subject of this third stand-alone volume in Gerald Weinberg's highly acclaimed series. To be effective, managers must act congruently...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To produce high-quality software, we need high-quality, effective managers. Becoming such a manager is the subject of this third stand-alone volume in Gerald Weinberg's highly acclaimed series. To be effective, managers must act congruently...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Change is inherently dangerous. Moreover, change becomes even more dangerous when we don't know what we're doing. Attempts to change software organizations commonly fail because of inadequate understanding of change dynamics -- the same reason the organizations got into crisis in the first place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This landmark 1971 classic is reprinted with a new preface, chapter-by-chapter commentary, and straight-from-the-heart observations on topics that affect the professional life of programmers.Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, Naomi Karten, and a group of successful software consultants present powerful ideas on how software engineers and managers can amplify their professional effectiveness -- as individuals, as members of teams, and as members of organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hunting for lessons on software project management, consultants James Bullock, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Marie Benesh selected forty experts’ most potent contributions to SHAPE, Weinberg’s Web-based, subscription-only discussion forum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all over the world, the text has proven its ability to open minds and sharpen thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Widely acclaimed as a consultant's consultant, Gerald M. Weinberg builds on his perennial best-seller The Secrets of Consulting with all-new laws, rules, and principles. You'll learn how to fight burnout, stay curious, understand your clients, negotiate effectively, and much, much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Joined by coeditors Marie Benesh and James Bullock, consultant’s consultant Gerald M. Weinberg highlights forty experts’ secrets for building and sustaining a leadership role in software development. Participants of the SHAPE forum, many of them software consultants and managers at the world’s most successful software companies, logged in to help each other identify the "stupid tricks" that developers are tempted to employ in design, code, and documentation—tricks that seem clever in the short term but have damaging long-term effects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Good technical people are the foundation on which successful high technology organizations are built. Establishing a good process for hiring such workers is essential. Unfortunately, the generic methods so often used for hiring skill-based staff, who can apply standardized methods to almost any situation, are of little use to those charged with the task of hiring technical people...read more

Product Description: Gerald M. Weinberg -- author of more than forty books and more than 400 articles over a forty-year career -- reveals his secrets for gathering, organizing, and discarding writing ideas. Drawing an analogy to the stone-by-stone method of building fieldstone walls, Weinberg shows writers how to construct fiction and nonfiction manuscripts from key insights, stories, and quotes...read more

Product Description: Can the Aremac Project Save a Bomb-Shattered Chicago from Terrorists Bent on Destruction and Extortion? To find out, read The Aremac Project, a new sci-fi techno-thriller by award-winning author Jerry Weinberg that pits technology against terrorism in a body-strewn race against time...read more

Product Description: Everyone has a role to play in software testing -- even people outside a project team. Testers, developers, managers, customers, and users shape the process and results of testing, often unwittingly. Rather than continue to generate stacks of documents and fuel animosity, testers can cultivate rich opportunities and relationships by integrating an effective testing mentality into any process...read more