Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) has always been interested in helping smart people be happy and productive. To that end, he has published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and the 4-volume General Systems Series. He has also written several books on teamwork and leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, Agile Impressions, Do You Want to Be a (better) Manager, The Secrets of Consulting, More Secrets of Consulting, and the multi-volume Quality Software series. He incorporates his knowledge of science, engineering, and human behavior into all of writing and consulting work (with writers, hi-tech researchers, and software engineers). He writes novels about such people—all about how his brilliant protagonists produce quality work and learn to be happy.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jerry Weinberg
- - Writing - both books and software - the good and bad of tools
- - The ambition to have tools that can correct and create programs and mind-reading programs
- - The desire to replace humans, including programmers, and the futility of prediction
- - Changes over time in program and data input and output
- - Mistakes, learning, reviews, and humility
- - The qualities of good project managers and the virtue of knowing how to use our most important tools - people
- - Human desires, the reality of the possible, and expectations
- - Helping people understand what they want
- - The appeal of programming and the challenge of human interaction
- - Jerry's relationship with Frederick Brooks
- - The importance of interaction with the people who use what you make and eating your own dog food
- - Institutional memory and inter-generational interaction
Resources:
- Jerry's First Appearance on Developer On Fire
- The Women of Power - Jerry's site for his novels
- Amazon's Gerald M. Weinberg Page
- Humanized Input: Techniques for Reliable Keyed Input - Tom Gilb, Gerald M. Weinberg
- The Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter
- Frederick Brooks
- The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- IBM System/360
- Digicus (Abacus + Digital Calculator)
- The Rosetta Stone
- The Dance - Tony Arata
- IBM 7030 Stretch
- Ken Iverson
- The Lone Ranger Intro