Jim McCarthy (author)
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Jim McCarthy | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Author |
Notable work | Software for Your Head, Dynamics of Software Development |
Jim McCarthy is an author and keynote speaker on software engineering practices. While working at Microsoft, he led the team that developed Visual C++[1] and wrote Dynamics of Software Development (1995), which popularized applying the term bozo bit to human interaction. He also worked at Bell Laboratories and the Whitewater Group,[1][2] and holds a key patent on instant messaging.[3]
Publications
[edit]- 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time
- Dynamics of Software Development (1995)
- Software for Your Head (2001)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Us". The McCarthy Show. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ "Jim McCarthy". InformIT. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ Mezick, Dan (2012-12-03). "The Core Protocols". InfoQ. Retrieved 2017-06-17.