My main hope for this blog is as a mechanism for readers to provide feedback on my book, Managing Systems Development 101. You can click on its title and read an excerpt of its content. My target audience is the, usually youngish, engineer who is growing beyond his/her academic technical specialty and beginning to face the myriad issues regarding systems that his/her teachers failed to address. It mainly is an expanded compilation of lessons learned that I found myself resurrecting as I went from job to job over a forty year career building aerospace and commercial system products.
Its Amazon posting has garnered some excellent reviews, but I would welcome more comments. For example, one publisher wanted me to expand its concise form into several hundred pages more typical of a textbook. I initially decided against that since I usually found myself frustrated going through “management” texts that seemed to delight in saying almost the same thing over and over again. On the other hand, such might expand the book's audience by improving its adoption rate as a textbook. What do you think?
I’d also welcome more examples and experiences regarding the topics that I address. I used real-world data wherever I could, but more would be helpful. Feedback regarding typo’s and the like are also desired. For example, the paragraph at the top of page 35 of the printed version is one font size larger than intended. Have you noted any other cosmetic flaws?
Its Amazon posting has garnered some excellent reviews, but I would welcome more comments. For example, one publisher wanted me to expand its concise form into several hundred pages more typical of a textbook. I initially decided against that since I usually found myself frustrated going through “management” texts that seemed to delight in saying almost the same thing over and over again. On the other hand, such might expand the book's audience by improving its adoption rate as a textbook. What do you think?
I’d also welcome more examples and experiences regarding the topics that I address. I used real-world data wherever I could, but more would be helpful. Feedback regarding typo’s and the like are also desired. For example, the paragraph at the top of page 35 of the printed version is one font size larger than intended. Have you noted any other cosmetic flaws?
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