Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications

1.4. Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Prentice-Hall, and Jill Harry in particular, for allowing me to pursue this difficult project. They were bold to support my desire to add another book to a market segment already brimming with so many excellent works. I hope that it will resonate with enough readers to justify the confidence they have shown in it.

Fondest appreciation to my father-in-law, Edward Michelic, a retired electrical systems test engineer, whose breadth of knowledge reaches back unerringly into a lifetime of amazingly varied study. His intellectual passion is as undiminished as his willingness to pitch in and help with my little projects.

I am ever grateful to my long-time colleague and friend, John Spande, whose only fault is that ...