books by Robert L. Glass (maintenance engineering electronic)

books by Robert L. Glass

books:

1 review
Robert L. Glass, Ronald Noiseux

Prentice Hall, 1981

classic text on software maintenance
Explains character traits that are ideal for a maintenance programmer such as flexibility, broad background, patience, self-motivation, responsibility, humility, innovation, and historian. Compares and contrasts the styles used for programming in languages such as assembly, Fortran, COBOL, and ALGOL. Enumerates tools for software development and proposes a "supercompiler" and "programmer's ...

The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives

14 reviews
Robert N. Britcher

Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd), 1999

Should be read inside and outside the field of computingl
At one level, this is a wonderful book about engineering, but there is more to it than that. It's about how we behave in the face of technology, especially those of us who are deeply involved in it. The book is important; I hope it is discovered.

An Iso 9000 Approach to Building Quality Software
Osten Oskarsson, Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall, 1995

Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters

12 reviews
Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall PTR, 1997

Valuable to managers and project managers
This is a collection of project disasters with an eye towards the major project management failures rather than the technical issues. Though many of these have been previously published, the assembly is worth price of the book. This will be is valuable for anybody involved in high-level decision making on mission-critical (and smaller) IT/Internet software projects. If you want to educate your ...

Software Conflict 2.0: The Art And Science of Software Engineering

4 reviews
Robert L. Glass

Developer.* Books, 2006

Timeless observations
This Bob Glass book is a real "closet classic" of software literature, and one that deserves to be back in print. Originally published in 1990 or so, it's composed of technology-agnostic essays that cut right to the heart of development concerns. As with so many other classic programming books (Brooks' "Mythical Man-Month", Yourdon's "Death March", Weinberg's "Understanding the Professional ...

Software Creativity 2.0

6 reviews
Robert L Glass

developer.* Books, 2006

Pragmatic Thinking in Software
Too often pragmatic concepts in software fall victim to zealot practitioners whose ideology includes panacean promises of one-click programming and ideas that good process guarantees a good product regardless of personnel. Too many people still promote their ideas and methodologies as cure-alls. These people treat software as a franchise with a factory-line assembly and replaceable parts. It ...

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Agile Software Development)

25 reviews
Robert L. Glass

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

Controversial but good
As stated at the beginning of this book there are some controversial facts in there. But If you manage to put your personal bias aside you will find that it is quite useful in understanding what is going on around you and why some developers are like they are. In short this is a book which you can debate on your blog for ages or just enjoy reading.

ComputingFailure.com: War Stories from the Electronic Revolution

3 reviews
Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall PTR, 2001

3,5 stars for a very good... compilation!
I have to admit I was drawn by the book's very provocative title, so I decided to browse through it today, to find that it is a very nice compilation of stories printed with permission, taken from publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Industry Standard, Barron's and Time Digital. This is not to say that the content of the stories was bad at all. On the contrary, all of these ...

Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned From Products, Projects, and Companies that Failed

3 reviews
Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall, 1998

Excellent Work....like the last one
Glass's book is an excellent & insightful book just like his previous book on software runaways. Having read academic and popular press literature on software risk & project risk with great interest, I would give this book 5 stars on its insightful organization. A MUST read for all of you folks suffering with lousy projects!

Software Creativity

1 review
Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall, 1995

Creativity in Software dichotomies
This book really looks at software creativity from a number of dichotomies - Ancient Greek (bring your own hammer) v. Rome (Let's build this together), Discipline v. Flexible, Formal v. Heuristics, extrinsic v. intrinsic motivations, science v. art and a number of others. These topics are all addressed in a series of very easy to read essays that takes the reader through the journey of ...

Building Quality Software
Robert L. Glass

Prentice Hall PTR, 1991

This book gets at the essence of software quality based on the premise that quality is at heart a technical problem, and that management's job is to create a facilitating environment. It fully explains the quality techniques available to the dedicated technologist, the ways that management can facilitate quality, and offers case studies. For software programmers and managers. KEY FEATURES: • features case studies of how companies ...

Computing Shakeout
Robert L. Glass

Computing Trends, 1987

Real "what happened and why" stories about some well-known microcomputer companies that failed. What happened to the pioneers, like MITS and IMSAI? Why did Texas Instruments get out of the business? What caused Steve Jobs to leave Apple, the company he brought up from nothing? These questions and many more are answered here.