Further Reading
McCarthy, Jim. Dynamics of Software Development. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1995. This is an entertaining set of lessons that McCarthy learned from his experiences working on Microsoft's Visual C++ and other products. McCarthy describes an enthusiastic but essentially grim vision of software development at Microsoft. He presents Microsoft projects as spending nearly all their time doing what this chapter has called Chapter 16. If you recognize that that is what McCarthy is writing about and read his book on that level, he has some valuable things to say.
Zachary, Pascal. Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. New York: Free Press, 1994. This is a description of the development ...
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