Jim McCarthy (author)

Jim McCarthy is an author and keynote speaker on software engineering practices. While working at Microsoft, he led the team that developed Visual C++ 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, and holds a key patent on instant messaging.

Publications

 * 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time
 * Dynamics of Software Development (1995)
 * Software for Your Head (2001)