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Title: Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633226 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Summary: Get it and read it.
Comment: This book holds a special place in my heart. It's the first technical book I ever read in one sitting.
I've been in the software business since 1983. By the time I encountered Quality Software Management in 1992, I was thoroughly cynical about books about software project management. By and large they were, and still are, preachy tomes that quote unverifiable statistics and make dubious claims about "right" and "wrong" processes. Grow up, guys!
Jerry's books are different, and this is my favorite of all of his books. As I read QSM, I didn't feel preached at or condescended to. I felt like, for the first time, someone was offering me ideas for coping with the very difficult problems that face those of us who work on projects where we don't have enough time, enough information, enough skill, or enough money to do a perfect job of anything. Given our limitations, we have to make tradeoff decisions in light of the best understanding of cause and effect we can muster. That's exactly what my organization was trying to do, in '92, when we were competing and winning against Microsoft (oh, they eventually beat us by hiring away the top third of our team, but that's another story). We just thought of ourselves as pragmatists, but when I read QSM I realized that our approach was also scientifically sound.
Looking back, I see QSM as one of the handful books in this field that actually helped me to become more expert at my job, and it's the first book I suggest to anyone who is serious about software quality assurance or software project management.
Get it and read it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mediocre
Comment: While I generally like Weinberg's more humanistic take on managing software, sometimes I feel like his lack of rigor is a detriment. His strategies and ideas are all well and I good, I agree with them completely, but his models are often too vague and he usually doesn't provide the beleaguered manager with much to go on besides platitudes. Overall I would say there isn't much (if any) new information in this book. Of course, I guess that depends on what other books you have read prior to this :-)
Rating: 5
Summary: A most enlightening introduction to quality.
Comment: I am not a software developer. When I stumbled across Gerry's book, I soon realized that I had found a hidden treasure. It contains within it the best definitions of quality that I have ever read. And he has a great sense of humor that helps make the lessons and insights you will get from the book easier to take. PS: His other books are equally great and should be read by software folks, as well as everyone else. Ned Hamson, Senior Editor, Association for Quality and Participation.
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Title: Quality Software Management: First-Order Measurement by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633242 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $43.95 |
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Title: Quality Software Management: Anticipating Change (Vol 4) by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633323 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633161 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633021 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633498 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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