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Weinberg on Writing:Finalist, Best Books 2006 Award

We’re pleased to announce that Weinberg on Writing,Gerald M. Weinberg’s 2006 release, has been named afinalist for USABookNews.com’s Best Books 2006 BookAwards.

Winners and finalists chosen from more than 1200entries were announced in more than 120 categoriescovering print, audio, e-books, and interactive CD-ROMs. USABookNews.com, an online magazine andreview Website for mainstream and independentpublishing houses, officially announces the winners andfinalists on November 1, 2006.

In Weinberg on Writing, author Jerry Weinbergreveals his secrets for collecting and organizing his ideasfor writing projects.

Jerry’s Fieldstone Method has propelled his writingthrough more than 40 books for more than 40 years.

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Tim Lister on Risk[IT Metrics and Productivity]

Peopleware coauthor Tim Lister was interviewedrecently by Michael Milutis, Executive Director of the ITMetrics and Productivity Institute.

Commenting on the state of risk managementpractices throughout corporate IT organizations, Listersaid:

“Sadly, I would say the vast majority oforganizations are not practicing real riskmanagement. A small minority do it very well.There are also some who say they do it, but whatthey do is identify risk and go back to business asusual. They may have a little step early in theirprocess that says, ‘Identify risk, evaluate risk,’ butthere is no evidence they do anything with thatinformation. In genuine risk management, youchange something on a big project based onrigorous risk assessment. You change your devel-

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opment strategy, you change the sequence, thedefinition of the project, the schedule, the staffing,and you keep a detailed record and rationale of thedecision making which led to such changes. Thiskind of risk management is rather rare.”

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Read Tim Lister’s Jolt-Award-winning book on riskmanagement: Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk onSoftware Projects, coauthored with Tom DeMarco.

Forthcoming: Weinberg’s Techno Thriller,The Aremac Project

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Drawing on contemporary neuroscience andnanotechnology, protagonists Roger Fixman and TessMyers develop software and hardware for a camera—theAremac—that can take pictures of a person’s memory.Unwittingly, the researchers provide the government—and its enemies, terrorists in Chicago—with a new formof interrogation.

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