Index of

Roundtable on Technical Leadership:
A SHAPE Forum Dialogue

edited by Gerald M. Weinberg,
Marie Benesh, and James Bullock

ISBN: 0-932633-51-X  
©2002  176 pages   softcover  
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Aikido, 111, 122

Algonquin Round Table, xxvii-xxviii

Antiguru, 98

Architecture, see Design

Artifacts, 40, 49-60

Batterson, Jim, xi, 9-10, 23-24

Benesh, Marie, xi-xii, xxix

Binding, 43-45, 47

Bullock, James, xii, xxvii-xxix, 10-11, 12-14, 16-17, 24, 27-29, 33, 41, 47, 49, 51-52, 53, 65, 73-74

Burke, James, 101

C, 14, 20, 22, 26

C++, 8, 71

Change, 56, 117-27

artistry, 86

behavioral, 109, 112

to code, 8, 67-69, 75

dealing with, 81

self-change, 129, 133-35, 137

Clever programmer tricks, 1-2, 6, 35-36, 67-68

encouragement of, 2, 6

COBOL, 12, 23-24

Code, 6-8, 11-16, 20, 22, 33, 43, 68-70, 73, 75, 126

cryptic variable names, 11-12

documenting, 66-67, 68

hard-coding, 6-7

monolithic, 14-17, 69-70

review, 69-70

size, 41

tags, 8-9

temporary, 7-8

Comments, 8, 26, 68-69

hack alert, 6-7, 18

ignoring, 9

marker, 8

Compiler, 6, 7, 14, 20, 22ff., 73-74

dependence on, 31-32

ignoring, 28-30

Congruence, 107, 136

Consider your alternatives (CYA), 50, 60

Constantine, Larry, 110

Constants, 6, 7, 44

Cubicle, 117-18, 121

Culture, 129-37

DEATHSTARR, 22, 43

DeMarco, Tom, 119, 139

Design, 15, 35, 36, 39-40, 47, 49, 51, 53-54, 55, 59, 69, 73

documentation, 39, 40, 49, 51, 59, 60, 67, 70

reviews, 36, 53

Rule of Three, 37

stupid tricks, 34-47, 52

Discovery Trail, 100, 102

Documents design, 35, 50, 51-55, 60

mixing, 55

purposes of, 54

temporary, 55

Do You Mean? game, 65, 108

Einstein, Albert, 109-10

Error messages, 29, 30

ignoring, 29

suppressing, 28-29

Experts, 3, 63, 77, 84-85, 87, 91, 94, 96, 109, 115

Fault Feedback Ratio, 66, 75

Feedback, 67-68, 75

Ferdinandi, Pat, xii-xiii, 63, 64, 77, 90, 94

Five Freedoms, see Satir, Virginia

FORTRAN, 22, 27

Fritz, xiii, 62-63

Fuhrer, Phil, xiii, 84, 120-21, 132

Furniture Police, 119, 123

Gilb, Tom, 126

Gordian Knot, 15, 69

Gordon, Jesse, xiii-xiv, 66, 68-69

Gray, Don, xiv, 79, 80, 93, 119

Gulino, Brian, xiv, 37-39, 56-57

Gurdjieff, G.I., 112

Guru, 77-82, 83-86, 87, 89-96, 98, 109-10, 111-15

accessibility of, 84-85, 87

antiguru, 98

communication, 93, 96

contentment, 84, 87

emotional qualities of, 85-86

enlightenment, 94

expert versus, 79, 87, 91-92, 94

humility, 85, 87, 98

inventiveness, 90

levels of, 8

teaching and, 80, 87, 91, 94, 96, 97-115

transcending reality, 81, 87, 104

Harris, Peter, xiv, 11, 117-19, 124

Howard, Joseph, xiv-xv, 8-9, 31-32, 49

Huigens, Kevin, xv, 119-20, 133, 134-35

Human interaction, 61-75

Identifiers, 9, 10, 25, 27, 29, 30

names, 24

Incongruence, 127

Jackson, Steven D., xv, 80, 89, 95, 100-101

Jarrett, James, xv-xvi, 121-23

Job hunting, 129-30

personal appearance and, 130-37

Karten, Naomi, 114

King, Bob, xvi, 79, 90-91

Kleist, Dave, xvi, 11, 14-15, 21, 32, 39, 40, 49, 51, 62, 69

Knapp, Henry, xvi, 112, 113-14, 126

Knopp, Brian, xvi-xvii, 16, 29, 30, 69-70

Kopp, Sheldon B., 85-86, 139

Labels, 78-79

Laurentine, Frederic, xvii, 98

Leadership, xxv, xxvi, 2, 3, 77-87, 89-96, 115

technical, 3, 96, 117

Learning environments, 105

four objectives of, 105

Lessons, 18, 33, 47, 60, 75, 87, 96, 115, 127, 137

Levels of learning, 89

Levine the Genius Taylor, 24

Lister, Timothy, 119, 139

Machine dependencies, 20-21

Macros, 8

Magic words, 8

Magritte, 83

MBTI, see Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator

McConnell, Steve, 15, 139

McGee, Pat, xvii, 68

McNamara, Nate, xvii, 71-72

Memorandum for file (MF), 50

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), 131, 134, 135

communication and, 135

INTP, 131

ISTJ, 131, 134

Naming, 11, 12-13, 21ff.

cute, 11, 212

Olsen, George, xvii, 81, 82, 91, 92-93, 94, 98, 102-3, 107, 110, 114

Optimization, 11, 14, 28, 33, 41

Ouspensky, Peter, 112

Passolt, Mark, xviii, 124-25, 126

Peer Reviews, 6, 15

Peopleware, 117-19, 126

Personal appearance 130-37

Petersen, Sue, xviii, 2, 6-7, 24, 37, 42-43, 95, 98, 135

Phillips, Dwayne, xviii, 14, 15, 16, 36-37, 77-78, 84

Placating, 120, 122

Poor Schmuck Prayer, 17

Poor Schmuck Support, 16, 18, 73-74

Portability, 19-33

Positive feedback loop, 90-91, 96

Postman, Neil, 110, 139

Problems,

analysis of, 53

social, 62, 75

solutions and, 52

solving, 35, 45-46, 47, 62, 71-73, 102

technical, 62, 75

Problem Solving Leadership (PSL), 62, 63, 99, 102-6, 114, 123

Programmer's Drinking Song, 66

R

Revision control tool (RCT), 68-69, 73

Richter, Brian, xviii-xix, 101-2, 123-24

Risk, 41

Roberts, Sharon Marsh, xix, 43-44, 45, 57-59

Satir, Virginia, 81, 127, 139

Five Freedoms, 127

Schuchert, Brett, xx, 99-100, 109

Scott, Stuart, xx, 105-7, 108, 109

SEI Level 3 Organization, 36

Self-aware competency, 92-93

Senge, Peter, 119, 139

SHAPE (Software as a Human Activity Performed Effectively), xxvii-xxix, 1, 30, 65-66, 106, 119

Smith, Dave W., xx, 65

Smith, Steve, xx, 94

Starr, Daniel, xxi, 20, 21-22, 24-25, 26, 27, 28, 35-36, 50, 52-53, 54-55, 64, 82, 132-33, 135, 136

Strider, Wayne, xxi, 104

Stupid analyst tricks, 9-10, 43-44, 59, 65

Stupid design tricks, 34-47

Stupid programmer tricks, 1-2, 6-9, 10-17, 20ff., 41, 49, 63, 65-75

prevention, 2, 6-7, 21, 26, 58

Sufi teaching story, 86

Systems, 20-21, 24, 41, 42-43, 44, 52

building, xxviii-xxix, 16, 41

defining, 55-56

design, 9-10, 36, 39-40, 110

flexibility, 55-56, 58

rule-based, 56-57

testing, 56

Tags, 8-9

TerMaat, Pete, xxi, 110-11, 112, 114

Trice, Phil, xxi-xxii, 78-79

Tricks, see Clever programmer tricks, Stupid analyst tricks, Stupid design tricks, Stupid programmer tricks

Trierweiler, Bill, xxii, 93

Tromp, Marianne, xxii, 81, 103-4

Type casting, 13-14, 16, 29

Type conversion, 14, 30, 31-32, 33

explicit, 31, 32

implicit, 31

Urug, see Antiguru

Warnings, 8, 28, 29, 30

Weinberg, Dani, 111, 133

Weinberg, Jerry, xxii-xxiii, xxvii, xxix, 1, 2-3, 6ff., 20ff., 35ff., 49ff., 62ff., 78ff., 89ff., 98, 99, 102ff., 117, 120ff., 129ff., 139-40

Weingartner, Charles, 110, 139

Wise, Kay, xxiii, 130-31

Y2K 1, 32-33, 40, 59

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