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Adaptive Software Development (Highsmith)

Foreword
Preface and Chapter 1

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies (DeMarco et al.)

Chapter 3: Dead Fish
Chapter 19: Film Critics
Chapter 62: Hidden Beauty

Agile Software Development in the Large (Eckstein)

Chapter 1: "Agility and Largeness"

Amplifying Your Effectiveness (Weinberg, Bach, and Karten)

Introduction
Part One

Best Practices for the Formal Software Testing Process (Drabick)

"The Need for the Formal Testing Process Model"

Communication Gaps and How to Close Them   (Karten) 

"Communicating Change"

Complete Systems Analysis (J.& S. Robertson)

"Your Project Starts Here"

Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Wiegers) 

Preface

Data Model Patterns (Hay)

Preface

The Deadline (DeMarco)

Preface
Chapter 1

Dr. Peeling's Principles of Management(Peeling)

Introduction: "Management Advice I Wish I'd Had"
Chapter 1: "Is Management Manipulation? "
Chapter 3: "Managing People in Teams: Leadership Principles"

Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design (Gause and Weinberg)

Preface
Introduction to Part I
Chapter 2

Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management (Putnam and Myers)

Part I: "What Software Stakeholders Want"
Chapter 1: "Intelligence Can Guide Us"
Chapter 22: "Ten Great Truths"

Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People (Rothman)

Preface

Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML (Page-Jones)

Preface

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Weinberg)

Preface

Managing Expectations (Karten)

Preface

Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations (Austin)

Preface

More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit (Weinberg)

Sample Laws
"The Law of Strawberry Jam"
"Polanski's Pointer"

Object-Oriented Computation in C++ and Java (Weisert)

Preface

Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister)

Preface
"Teamicide Revisited"

The Practical Guide to Business Process Reengineering Using IDEFO (Feldmann)

Preface

Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering (Hatley, Hruschka, and Pirbhai )

Chapter 1

Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews (Kerth)

Foreword

The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition (Weinberg)

Preface
Chapter 8

Quality Software Management, Vol. 4: Anticipating Change (Weinberg)

Preface

Roundtable on Project Management (Bullock,Weinberg, and Benesh)

Chapter 12

Roundtable on Technical Leadership (Weinberg, Benesh, and Bullock)

Preface
Chapter 10

To Satisfy and Delight Your Customer (Pardee) 

Preface

The Secrets of Consulting (Weinberg)

Foreword
Preface

Slack (DeMarco)

"Efficiency and/or Effectiveness"

Strategies for Real-Time System Specification (Hatley and Pirbhai)

Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1

Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing: A People-Oriented Approach (Perry and Rice)

Chapter 3

System Testing with an Attitude: An Approach That Nurtures Front-Loaded Software Quality (Petschenik)

Introduction

Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (DeMarco and Lister)

Chapter 1: "Running Toward Risk"
Chapter 7: "Shocked, Disappointed, and Dismayed"

Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (Weinberg)

Chapter 4: "Prospecting: Gathering Explained"

What Every Programmer Should Know About Object-Oriented Design (Page-Jones)

Preface

  
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