McConnell IEEE articles

August 9, 2004

I found these editorials buried on Steve McConnell's website, from his stint as editor of IEEE software magazine. It's a great series of articles; they're all good, but I particularly recommend "Cargo Cult Engineering." Here are direct links to each, in chronological order, October 1998 through February 2002.

• Building the Community
• How To Read A Technical Article
• After the Gold Rush
• Software Engineering Principles
• Open Source Methodology: Ready for Prime Time?
• Update on Professional Development
• Brooks' Law Repealed?
• 10 Best Influences on Software Engineering
• Cargo Cult Software Engineering
• Sitting on the Suitcase
• The Software Manager's Toolkit
• What's In a Name?
• Quantifying Soft Factors
• Who Needs Software Engineering?
• Art, Science, and Engineering
• An Ounce of Prevention
• Common Sense
• Nine Deadly Sins of Project Planning
• Raising Your Software Consciousness
• Closing the Gap

I spared you guys the embarrassing chicken little-esque Y2K editorial. I guess we can all take heart, even a guy as smart as Steve gets it wrong sometimes..