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This is a reading list of our favorite new, and not-so-new, books. A book is listed here if one or more Guildoon considers it interesting enough to pass on to you. Not all the books are professional reading, however we don't guarantee that you will like our taste in leisure reading. We thought that you might like to look into some of these, and will be pleased to hear about your favorite reading. Please send your favorites and worthy additions to the Guild Bookmeister. The categorization and subject grouping is subjective and quirky. Please let one of us know if you have specific objections, and please let one of us know if you have enjoyed any of our selections. The books are into broad categories: Books Useful for Requirements Analysts:Beyer, Hugh and Karen Holtzblatt. Contextual Design. Defining Customer-Centered Systems. Morgan Kauffmann, San Francisco, 1998. Bolton, Robert. People Skills. How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others and Resolve Conflicts. Simon & Schuster, 1979. Burgess, Anthony. Language Made Plain. Fonatana, London, 1975. Buzan, Tony with Barry Buzan. The Mind Map Book. BBC Books, London, 1995. Carroll, John. Scenario-Based Design. John Wiley and Sons. New York, 1995. Checkland, Peter & J. Scholes. Soft Systems Methodology in Action. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1991. Checkland, Peter. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1981. Cockburn, Alistair. Writing Effective Use Cases. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Constantine, Larry and Lucy Lockwood. Software for Use A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design. Addison Wesley, New York, 1999. Cristensen, Clayton. The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass. 1997. Davis, Alan. Software Requirements - Objects, Functions and States. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. DeGrace, Peter and Leslie Hulet Stahl. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions. Yourdon Press, New Jersey, 1990. Ellinor, Linda and Glenna Gerard. Dialogue: Rediscovering the Transforming Power of Conversation. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. Fisher, Roger and William Ury. Getting to Yes. Penguin, New York, 1991. Gause, Donald and Gerald Weinberg. Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design. Dorset House, New York, 1989. ____________________ Are Your Lights On? How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is. Dorset House, New York, 1990. Gershenfeld, Neil. When Things Start to Think, Henry Holt & Co. New York, 1999. Graham, Ian. Requirements Engineering and Rapid Development, an object-oriented approach. Addison-Wesley, 1998. Hatley, Derek, Peter Hruschka and Imtiaz Pirbhai. Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering. Dorset House, New York, 2000 Hauser, John and Don Claussing. The House of Quality. Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business School, Boston, 1988. Hayakawa, S.I. Language in Thought and Action. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1970 Hooks, Ivy F and Kristin A Farry. Customer-Centered Products: Creating successful products through smart Requirements Management, Amacom, 2001.
Jackson, Michael. Software Requirements & Specifications - a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices. Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England. 1995. ISBN 0-201-87712-0.
Jackson, Michael. Problem Frames Analysing and structuring software development problems. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Kelley, Tom. The Art of Innovation. Lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm. Doubleday, New York. 2001 Amazon.com Kilov, Haim, Bernhard Rumpe and Ian Simmonds (editors). Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1999. Kotonya, Gerald and Ian Sommerville. Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques. John Wiley 1998. Kovitz, Benjamin. Practical Software Requirements a Manual of Content & Style. Manning, Greenwich CT, 1999. Lausen, Soren. Software Requirements - Styles and Techniques. Addison-Wesley, London. 2002. Amazon.com Leffingwell, Dean and Don Widrig. Managing Software Requirements - a Unified Approach. Object Technology Series (Series editors Booch Jacobson Rumbaugh), Addison-Wesley, 2000 Latour, Bruno. ARAMIS or The Love of Technology. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1996. Lauesen, Søren. Software Requirements - styles and techniques Samfundslitteratur, Copenhagen, 1999 Loucopoulos, Pericles and Vassilios Karakostas. System Requirements Engineering. McGraw-Hill, London, 1995. Macaulay, Linda. Requirements Engineering. Springer-Verlag, London, 1994. Maiden N.A.M, C. Ncube & A. Moore Acquiring Requirements for Commercial Off-The Shelf Pagage Selection: Some Lessons Learned. City University 1998 McMenamin, Steve & John Palmer. Essential Systems Analysis. Yourdon Press, New York, 1984. Moore, Geoffrey. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers. HarperBusiness, 1999. Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday, New York, 1990. ___________ The Invisible Computer. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1999. Pardee, William. To Satisfy & Delight Your Customer. Dorset House, New York, 1996. Peters, Tom. The Circle of Innovation. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997. Petrowski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. Pavilion, London, 1993. Prieto-Diaz, Rubén & Guillermo Arango. Domain Analysis and Software Systems Modeling. IEEE Computer Society Press 1991. Robertson, James & Suzanne. Complete Systems Analysis - the Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers. Dorset House, New York, 1994. _______________________ Mastering the Requirements Process. Addison-Wesley, 1999. Schank, Roger. Tell Me a Story Narrative and Intelligence. Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL. 1990. Seybold, Patricia Customers.com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond. Times Books, 1998. Sommerville, Ian and Pete Sawyer. Requirements Engineering a Good Practice guide. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England, 1998. Terninko, John. Step-by-step QFD. Second Edition. St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton FL, 1997. Weigers, Karl. Software Requirements. Microsoft Press, 1999. Wieringa, R.J. Requirements Engineering - Frameworks for Understanding. John Wiley, 1996. Wiley, Bill. Essential System Requirements. Addison-Wesley, 2000. Young, Ralph. Effective Requirements Practices. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Books About Software Management:Abdel-Hamid, Tarek and Stuart Madnick, Software Project Dynamics - an Integrated Approach. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1991.
Austin, Robert D. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. New York: Dorset House, 1996.
Boehm, Barry. Software Risk Management. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA. 1989. Charette, Robert. Software Engineering Risk Analysis and Management. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1989. Cusumano, Michael and Richard Selby. Microsoft Secrets. Free Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-02-874048-3.
DeMarco, Tom. Why Does Software Cost So Much? And Other Puzzles of the Information Age. Dorset House, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-932633-34-X.
DeMarco, Tom. The Deadline. Dorset House, New York, 1997. DeMarco, Tom, and Timothy Lister: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Dorset House, New York, 1989. Fenton, Norman and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach International Thomson Computer Press, 1997 Function Point Counting Practices Manual. International Function Point Users Group, Westerville OH. Garmus, David and David Herron. Measuring the Software Process. Yourdon Press, New Jersey, 1996. Gilb, Tom with Susannah Finzi. Principles of Software Engineering Management. Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England, 1988. Jones, Capers. Applied Software Measurement. McGraw-Hill, 1991 Jones, Capers. Assessment and Control of Software Risks. Yourdon Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1994. ISBN 0-13-741406-4.
Jones, Capers. Software Quality - Analysis and Guidelines for Success. International Thomson, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997 Maguire, Steve. Debugging the Development Process. Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington, 1994. Schelling, Thomas. The Strategy of Conflict. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1980. Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline. Doubleday, New York, 1990. Thomsett, Rob. Third Wave Project Management: A Handbook for Managing the Complex Information Management Systems of the 1990's. Prentice-Hall/Yourdon Press, New York, 1993. van Solingen, Rini and Egon Berghout. The Goal/Question/Metric Method A practical guide for quality improvement of software development. McGraw Hill, 1999. Weigers, Karl. Creating a Software Engineering Culture. Dorset House, New York, 1996 Weinberg, Jerry. Quality Software Management. Dorset House, New York.
Books About Software Development:Beyer, Hugh and Karen Holtzblatt. Contextual Design. Defining Customer-Centered Systems. Morgan Kauffmann, San Francisco, 1998. Booch, Grady, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson. Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Addison Wesley, 1998. Buschmann, Frank, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad and Michael Stal. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - A System of Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England, 1996. ISBN 0-471-95869-7. Carroll, John. Scenario-Based Design. John Wiley and Sons. New York, 1995. Checkland, Peter & J. Scholes. Soft Systems Methodology In Action. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1991. Cook, Steve and John Daniels. Designing Object Systems. Object-oriented Modeling with Syntropy. Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead, England. 1994. ISBN 0-13-203860-9. Coplien, James and Douglas Schmidt (Eds.) Pattern Languages of Program Design. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1995. ISBN 0-201-60734-4. Davis, Alan. Software Requirements - Objects, Functions and States. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. DeGrace, Peter and Leslie Hulet Stahl. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions. A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms. Yourdon Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990. ISBN 0-13-590126-X. Dustin, Elfriede et al. Automated Software Testing Published by Addison-Wesley, 1999.
Fowler, Martin. UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison Wesley, 1997. Gamma, Eric, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass. 1995. ISBN 0-201-63361-2. Tom DeMarco's review of this book, reprinted from IEEE Software Magazine Gause, Donald and Gerald Weinberg. Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design. Dorset House, New York, 1989. ____________________ Are Your Lights On? How to Figure Out What the
Problem Really Is. Dorset House, New York, 1990. Gilb, Tom with Susannah Finzi. Principles of Software Engineering Management. Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England, 1988. ISBN 0-201-19246-2. Gilb, Tom and Dorothy Graham. Software Inspection. Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England, 1993. ISBN 0-201-63181-4. Hay, David C. Data Model Patterns, Conventions of Thought, Dorset House, New York, 1995.
Jacobson Ivar, Martin Griss, Patrik Jonsson: Software Reuse: Architecture Process and Organization for Business Success. Addison-Wesley Longman, Wokingham, June 1997. Jacobson, Ivar, Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh. The Objectory Software Development Process. Addison Wesley, 1998. Jacobson, Ivar, Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson, Gunnar Övergaard. Object Oriented Software Engineering - a Use case Driven Approach. Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, England, 1992. Macaulay, Linda. Requirements Engineering. Springer-Verlag, London, 1994. Maguire, Steve. Debugging the Development Process. Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington, 1994. McConnell, Steve. Code Complete. Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington, 1993. ISBN 1-55615-484-4
McMenamin, Steve, and John Palmer. Essential Systems Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Oestereich, Bernd, Peter Hruschka, et.al.. Erfolgreich mit Objektorientierung. Oldenbourg, München, 1999. Page-Jones, Meilir. What Every Programmer Should Know about Object-Oriented Design. Dorset House, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-932633-31-5.
This is part of the Addison-Wesley UML series (Booch, Jacobson, Rumbaugh series editors). But this is not yet another book about the UML notation. This book is about design. From the author: "Everyone who writes code also designs code either well or badly, either consciously or unconsciously. My goal in writing this book is to encourage OO professionals to create good object-oriented designs consciously and prior to coding." Buy from Amazon.com Pardee, William. To Satisfy and Delight Your Customer. Dorset House, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-932633-35-8. Pfleeger, Charles. Security in Computing. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1997. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence. Software Engineering Theory and Practice. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1998. Prieto-Diaz, Rubén & Guillermo Arango. Domain Analysis and Software Systems Modeling. IEEE Computer Society Press 1991. Robertson, James and Suzanne. Complete Systems Analysis: the Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers, Dorset House, New York, 1994.
Rumbaugh, James, Ivar Jacobson and Grady Booch. Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual. Addison Wesley, 1998. Shlaer, Sally and Steve Mellor. Object-Oriented Systems Analysis. Yourdon Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988. ____________________. Object Lifecycles - Modeling the World in States.
Yourdon Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1992. Sommerville, Ian and Pete Sawyer. Requirements Engineering a Good Practice guide. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England, 1998. Stevens, Richard, Peter Brook, Ken Jackson and Stuart Arnold. Systems Engineering Coping with Complexity. Prentice Hall Europe 1998.
Books on Design Philosophy:Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language. Oxford University Press, New York, 1977.
Latour, Bruno. ARAMIS or The Love of Technology. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1996.
Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. (Previously published as The Psychology of Everyday Things.) New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1988.
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983.
_____________ Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983.
___________Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997.
Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1987. ISBN 0-201-11297-3. Winograd, Terry. Bringing Design to Software. ACM Press, New York, 1996.
Books Where You Will Find Useful Insights:Buzan, Tony with Barry Buzan. The Mind Map Book. BBC Books, London, 1995.
Bolton, Robert. People Skills. How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others and Resolve Conflicts. Simon & Schuster, 1979. Burgess, Anthony. Language Made Plain. Fonatana, London, 1975. Christensen, Clayton. The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press, 1997. Demarco, Tom. Slack Getting past burnout, busywork and the myth of total efficiency. Broadway Books, New York. 2001. Ellinor, Linda and Glenna Gerard. Dialogue: Rediscovering the Transforming Power of Conversation. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. Garfinkel, Simson. Database nation the death of privacy in the 21st century. O'Reilly, 2001.
Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture. How technology transforms the way we create and communicate. Basic Books, 1997 Latour, Bruno. ARAMIS or The Love of Technology. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1996. Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday, New York, 1990. Pardee, William. To Satisfy & Delight Your Customer. Dorset House, New York, 1996. Petrowski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. Pavilion, London, 1993. Schank, Roger. Tell Me a Story Narrative and Intelligence. Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL. 1990. Schelling, Thomas. The Strategy of Conflict. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1980. Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline. Doubleday, New York, 1990. Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The true story of a genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time. Penguin Books. London, 1995 Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997. United States Marine Corps. Warfighting. Currency Doubleday,
New York, 1994. 3Journals:IEEE Software. Published by IEEE Computer Society.
Interactions. Published by the ACM.
Software Development Magazine. Published by Miller Freeman Inc.
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Page-Jones,
Meilir. Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML. Foreword
by Larry Constantine. Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 020169946X
Don
Norman has published the Invisible Computer. Don't be put off
by the subtitle: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is
So Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution. You may not
agree with Norman (I didn't) about the personal computer being complex.
Read the book instead for the wealth of knowledge Norman brings to the subject,
and the insights you will get about designing for use.
Raskin, Jef. In The
Humane Interface, Jef Raskin, the creator of the Apple Macintosh project,
demonstrates that many current interface paradigms are dead ends, and that
to make computers significantly easier to use requires new approaches. This
is not a book about today's cool widgets and interface gimmicks, but a thoughtful
treatise on what we should be thinking about when we build our products
and their interfaces. 
Gleik, James. Faster: the acceleration of
just about everyhting. Vintage Books, 2000. ISBN: 067977548X.
Faster ells of the acceleration that affects almost everything that we do.
Some of this acceleration is due to the technology that we use email
instead of "snail mail" and some of it due to the growing
impatience (or accelerated expectations) of humans living in modern urban
areas the obsession with saving two seconds by pressing the door close
button in elevators. James Gleick's commentary is enlightening and
interesting. 