| Decline and Fall, Reexamined / I： |
| The Original Premise / 1： |
| An Update of the Original Premise |
| What Do Software Customers Really Want? |
| Conclusion |
| Peopleware / 2： |
| The Basic Concept |
| Breaking the Social Contract |
| Other Changes in Peopleware |
| Strategic Implications |
| The Other Silver Bullets / 3： |
| Software Process Improvement |
| Object Technology |
| Software Reuse |
| Software Metrics |
| Summary and Conclusions |
| Repaving Cowpaths / II： |
| System Dynamics / 4： |
| Models of Software Processes |
| Visual Models |
| Some Examples |
| War Games |
| Personal Software Practices / 5： |
| The Concept of Personal Software Processes |
| The Practicality of the PSP |
| Best Practices / 6： |
| What Are Best Practices? |
| Best Practices at DOD |
| Worst Practices |
| Implementing Best Practices |
| Summary and Conclusion |
| Good-Enough Software / 7： |
| The Concept of Good Enough |
| What Prevents Us from Building Good-Enough Software? |
| Defending Good-Enough Software |
| Building Good-Enough Software |
| The Implications for American Software |
| The Brave New World / III： |
| Service Systems / 8： |
| Why Do We Recreate the Same Old Stuff? |
| Core Systems, Infrastructure Systems, and Service Systems |
| The Impact on the American Programmer |
| The Internet / 9： |
| Who Cares? |
| Why This Matters to the Average Programmer |
| Who's Going to Win the Internet Race? |
| Java and the New Internet Programming Paradigm / 10： |
| What Is Java All About? |
| The Java Environment |
| The Java Language |
| Alternatives and Competitors |
| The Microsoft Paradigm / 11： |
| Microsoft's Approach to Software Development |
| The Dark Side of the Force |
| Into the Belly of the Beast |
| Development Practices at Microsoft / <$$$>11.4 Peopleware at Microsoft： |
| Embedded Systems and Brave New Worlds / 12： |
| Why Embedded Systems? |
| Some Potential Examples |
| Trends and Implications |
| Who Will Prevail in the Field of Embedded Systems? |
| Past, Present, and Future / 13： |
| An Updated Programmer's Bookshelf / Appendix： |
| Index |
| Decline and Fall, Reexamined / I： |
| The Original Premise / 1： |
| An Update of the Original Premise |
| What Do Software Customers Really Want? |
| Conclusion |
| Peopleware / 2： |
