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Part 1 Managing People 1

1 My First BillG Review 3

2 Finding Great Developers 9

3 A Field Guide to Developers 21

4 Three Management Methods (Introduction) 35

5 The Command and Control Management Method 37

6 The Econ 101 Management Method 41

7 The Identity Management Method 47

Part 2 Advice to Potential Programmers 51

8 The Perils of JavaSchools 53

9 Talk at Yale 59

10 Advice for Computer Science College Students 73

Part 3 The Impact of Design 83

11 Font Smoothing, Anti-Aliasing, and Subpixel Rendering 85

12 A Game of Inches 89

13 The Big Picture 93

14 Choices = Headaches 99

15 It's Not Just Usability 103

16 Building Communities with Software 111

Part 4 Managing Large Projects 123

17 Martian Headsets 125

18 Why Are the Microsoft Office File Formats So Complicated? (And Some Workarounds) 143

19 Where There's Muck, There's Brass 151

Part 5 Programming Advice 155

20 Evidence-Based Scheduling 157

21 Strategy Letter VI 171

22 Can Your Programming Language Do This? 177

23 Making Wrong Code Look Wrong 183

Part 6 Starting a Software Business 201

24 Foreword to Eric Sink on the Business of Software 203

25 Foreword to Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality 207

26 Hitting the High Notes 211

Part 7 Running a Software Business 221

27 Bionic Office 223

28 Up the Tata Without a Tutu 227

29 Simplicity 231

30 Rub a Dub Dub 235

31 Top Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test 241

32 Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service 245

Part 8 Releasing Software 255

33 Picking a Ship Date 257

34 Camels and Rubber Duckies 263

Part 9 Revising Software 281

35 Five Whys 283

36 Set YourPriorities 289

Index 297