How far we yet have to go

[netmouse]

I'm returning Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running The Asylum to the Menlo Institute today and decided to first note the books recommended by the author in the text and footnotes:

• About Face: The Essentials of User Interface design, by Alan Cooper
  
• Lateral Thinking, Creativity Step by Step, by Edward de Bono
  
• How The Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker
  
• Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore
  
• Managing the Professional Service Firm, by David Maister
  
• I Sing the Body Electronic, by Fred Moody
  
• Motivation and Productivity, by Saul W. Gellerman
  
• The Secrets of Consulting; A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Sucessfully, by Gerald Weinberg
  

Doing this brought to my attention the fact that not a single one of the books Alan refers to in his book was authored by a woman. Ah, the state of my industry.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an opportunity.

B

[bjorng.livejournal.com]

On the topic of books, I just picked up

CMM Implementation Guide: Choreographing Software Process Improvement by Kim Caputo

(Don't know if Kim's a woman or not.) You expressed an interest in seeing something about CMM, and I'm not likely to get to it for a while, so if you'd like to borrow it, let me know.