In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development community. Their insights may surprise you.

The book digs into the economic risk caused by automation moving faster than peoples ability to adapt to the change, and suggests solutions to address this danger.

This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering. How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life?

In this book, two renowned experts address every category of Web software exploit: attacks on clients, servers, state, user inputs, and more.

This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software.

These are among the myriad questions with which forecasters commonly wrestle and for which, until now, there was little or no expert guidance available in book form.

Software professionals, architects, project leads, or managers at any stage of their career will benefit greatly from this book, which provides guidance and knowledge that would otherwise take decades and many projects to acquire.

This is a new selection of essays from the author's web site, http://www.joelonsoftware.com.