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I co-authored a chapter in "Beautiful Teams" at the urging of a friend, who was coordinating the project. Writing a chapter is quite a bit of work, so a book must be quite an under…

In case you're curious, the Table of Contents are listed below: Copyright About the Author Preface Part I: Models of Designing Chapter 1. The Design Question Chapter 2. How Enginee…

With NUMMI closing down any day now, "The Machine that Changed the World" by Womack, et al (1990) is almost as relevant now as it was then. The book describes the management and pr…

I'd recommend "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore. It almost perfectly describes the lifecycle and challenges faced by the two software-product-based startups that I've worke…

Agreed, and SharePoint tends to be backed up on the DBMS backup schedule, which is usually more frequent than the file-share/NAS schedule, which is another bonus. It's the "non-san…

Based on the implementation at my workplace, SP seems to have value as a hybrid intranet site and file share. Each department has their own section in which non-IT folks can create…

I just saw this today...it might fit the bill: "Make: Electronics -- Learning Through Discovery" By Charles Platt; Released: December 2009 (est.) ; http://oreilly.com/catalog/97805…