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Amplifying your effectiveness : collected essays / edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach & Naomi Karten. - New York : Dorset House, c2000. - xiv, 146 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments

Permissions Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Book and the Conference

Gerald M. Weinberg

Part One: Empowering the Individual

The Role of Testing

A Brief History of the Accessibility of Computers by Blind People

Solving Other People's Problems

The Perils of Parallel Projects

Do I Want to Take This Crunch Project?

Part Two: Improving Interpersonal Interactions

Life as a Software Architect

Step One in Building Strong Working Relationships
Congruent Interviewing by Audition
Maneuvers to Disable a Team

How to Deal with Irate Customers

Part Three: Mastering Projects

Ten Project Haiku

It's Just the First Slip

Quality Begins at Home

Managing Your ERP: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls of Implementation

Recognizing Runaway Projects
Part Four: Changing the Organization

The Satir Change Model

Modeling Organizational Change

How to Create a Process for Developing Useful Scientific Software

Good Practice Hunting

Epilogue

Naomi Karten

Contributors
Index



ISBN: 0932633471 (softcover)

LCCN: 00059642

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Software engineering.

LC Class. No.: QA76.758 / .A48 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 005 WEI K