People

First, there's me, Brian Lawrence and my colleague, Bob Johnson.

Here are some people we know and work with.

Jerry Weinberg our close friend and mentor. We think Jerry is one of the most profound thinkers in the area of software design and production today.

Cem Kaner our co-author, and a testing and legal expert.

Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister of the Atlantic Systems Guild - industry leading experts project and risk management.

Johanna Rothman our colleague in software process and quality consulting. We're co-developing a workshop with Johanna on how to test in the absence of good specifications.

Wayne & Eileen Strider our colleagues in human aspects of software and quality.

Dale Emery another colleague who specializes in overcoming resistance to change.

Bill Pardee, our friend and local expert on QFD.

Peter de Jager, our favorite year 2000 expert.

Companies/Products

Construx, Steve McConnell's software consulting firm.

RequisitePro - Rational's requirements management tool.

Organizations

The IEEE Computer Society, producers of one of the leading journals in software development, IEEE Software .

SEI - purveyors of the Pittsburgh Polka on the dance card of software process (AKA the CMMs for Software and other things). We think their Risk Program is pretty good.

Silicon Valley SPIN - A local group which looks at and shares best practices in software process.

And...

We attend Consultants' Camp, an annual gathering of consultants.

E-mail: Brian Lawrence