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Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really is
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gause, Donald C. Weinberg, Gerald M. |
| Copyright Year | 1982 |
| Abstract | Measuring and managing performance in organizations / Robert D. Austin ; foreword by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise , without prior written permission of the publisher. Acknowledgments I great many people helped me, in one way or another, as I put this book together. and the capable staff at Dorset House did much to improve the writing and the organization of this book. Carnegie Mellon University professors and together an amazing mass of largely contrarian brain power, had much influence on the ideas in this book. Other CMU faculty who provided help, directly or indirectly, include Thanks as well to Shmuel Zamir of Hebrew University at Jerusalem. Among my industrial colleagues, John Hrubes is notable for the quality of his ideas, many of which have found their way into this book. Ashish Sanil and Joe Besselman were valuable discussion partners who contributed their thoughts as well. To each of these people I owe very considerable thanks. I also owe something to a pair of educational institutions. Carnegie Mellon University is a hot bed of original thought, where the best of the old and the new interact interestingly and fiercely, and where boundaries between fields are routinely and irreverently demolished. Swarthmore College, my original alma mater, provides perhaps the best and most strenuous undergrad-vn A viii • Acknowledgments uate education in the known universe, and is like the most fun you can have while drinking directly from a firehose. I am enormously grateful that these two places exist and for the influence they had on me. Thanks also to the eight software measurement experts who agreed to be interviewed for this book: Ed Tilford, and an expert who decided to remain anonymous. Many people reviewed the manuscript at one time or another. all of whom spent time with early versions and provided support. Thanks to Bill Curtis who was extremely helpful until distance made our interactions less frequent. And finally, to my family, I extend thanks. To my wife, Laurel, my daughter, Lillian, my brother, my parents—and to the many others who have helped me along in one way or another, or who regularly do so. Permissions Acknowledgments The author and publisher gratefully … |
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