Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis

Meditations on Computer Systems Development

by Patrick McDermott

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography

I’ve listed here those books referred to in the text that you might find useful in your quest to learn about Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis.

Things Japanesey

Chamberlain, Basil Hall, Japanese Things: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company (0-8048-0713-2), 1971 (originally Things Japanese, 1905).

Dower, John W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (0-393-32027-8), 1999.

Lee, Bruce, Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense, Santa Clarita, California: Ohara Publications (0-89750-112-8), 1963.

Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (translator from Olde Japanese), A Book of Five Rings, Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press (0-87951-018-8, 0-87951-153-2 & 0-517-41528-3), 1974 (Go Rin no Sho, 1643).

Okakura, Kakuzo, The Book of Tea, New York: Dover Publications (0-486-20070-1), 1964 (1906).

Yamamoto Tsunetomo [Jōchō], William Scott Wilson (translator), Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Tokyo: Kodansha International (4-7700-1106-7), 1979 (1716).

Things Programmatical

Beck, Kent, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-61641-6), 2000.

Beizer, Boris, Software System Testing and Quality Assurance, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Electrical/Computer Science and Engineering Series (0-442-21306-9), 1984.

Fowler, Martin, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-48567-2), 2000.

Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides [“the Gang of Four”], Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-63361-2), 1995.

Hunt, Andrew & David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-61622-X), 2000.

James, Geoffrey, The Tao of Programming, Santa Monica: Info Books (0-931137-07-1), 1987.

James, Geoffrey, The Zen of Programming, Santa Monica: Info Books (0-931137-09-8), 1988.

McDermott, Patrick, Solving the Year 2000 Crisis, Boston: Artech House (0-89006-725-2), 1998.

Riel, Arthur J., Object-Oriented Design Heuristics, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-63385-X), 1996.

McConnell, Steve, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press (1-55615-900-5), 1996.

Yourdon, Edward, Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Yourdon Press (0-13-121831-X),

Things Systems Developmental

Boehm, Barry, Software Engineering Economics, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR (0-13-822122-7), 1981.

DeMarco, Tom & Timothy Lister, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, New York: Dorset House Publishing Company (0-932633-05-6), 1987.

Hay, David C., Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, New York: Dorset House (0-932633-29-3), 1996.

Larman, Craig, Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR (0-13-748880-7), 1998.

Moody, Fred, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier, New York: Penguin Books (0-14-017655-1), 1995.

Muller, Robert J. Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (1-55860-515-0), 1999.

Sharp, Alec & Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development, Second Edition, Boston: Artech House (978-1-59693-192-3), 2008.

Sharp, Alec & Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development, Boston: Artech House (1-58053-021-4), 2001.

Silverston, Len, William H. Inmon & Kent Graziano, The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Logical Data and Data Warehouse Designs, New York: John Wiley & Sons (0-471-15364-8), 1997.

Yourdon, Edward, Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving “Mission Impossible” Projects, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall (0-13-748310-4), 1997.

Things Technological

Capra, Fritjof, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, New York: Bantam Books (0-533-10868-9), 1975.

Cooper, Alan, The Inmates Are Running The Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS/Macmillan Computer Publishing (0-672-31649-8), 1999.

Ellul, Jacques, Geoffrey Bromiley (translator from French), The Technological Bluff, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdsmans Publishing (0-8028-3678-X), 1990 (Bluff technologique, 1986).

Koulopoulos, Thomas & Nathaniel Palmer, The X-Economy: Profiting from Instant Commerce, New York: Texere (1-58799-074-1), 2001.

Raskin, Jef, The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (0-201-37937-6), 2000.

Raymond, Eric S., The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly (0-596-00108-8), 1999.

Shapiro, Carl & Hal Varian, Information Rules: a Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press (0-87584-863-X), 1999.

Turkle, Sherry, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York: Touchstone (0-684-83348-4), 1995.

Things Eclectic

Boorstin, Daniel J., The American Experience: The Democratic Experience, New York: Vintage Books (0-394-71011-8), 1973.

Johnson, Steven, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, New York: Scribner (0-684-86875-X), 2001.

Friedman, Thomas L., The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York: Anchor Books (0-385-49934-5), 2000.

Hofstadter, Douglas R., Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, New York: Basic Books (0-465-08645-4), 1997.

Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, New York: Anchor Books (0-385-49208-1), 1997.

Lamb, Brian, Booknotes: America’s Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas, New York: Times Books (0-8129-2847-4), 1997.

Lamott, Anne, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, New York: Anchor Books (0-385-48001-6), 1994.

Lederer, William J. & Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American, New York: W.W. Norton (0-393-31867-2), 1958.

Minsky, Marvin, The Society of Mind, New York: Simon &Schuster (0-671-65713-5), 1986.

Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell in the Strand, 1776. (No ISBN).

Schary, Dore, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, with Cary Grant, & Myrna Loy, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., 1996 (1948). VHS, DVD.

Snow, C.P., The Two Cultures, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (0-521-45730-0), 1998.

Japanese Management

Deming, W. Edwards, Out of the Crisis, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press (0-262-54115-7), 2000 (1982).

Imai, Masaaki, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success, New York: McGraw-Hill (0-07-554332-X), 1986.

Imai, Masaaki, Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management, New York: McGraw-Hill (0-07-031446-2), 1997.

Nonaka, Ikujiro & Hirotaka Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, New York: Oxford University Press (0-19-509269-4), 1995.

Ouchi, William, Theory Z: How American Business can meet the Japanese Challenge, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (0-201-05524-4), 1981.

For A Good Story

Feynman, Richard P., What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York: Bantam Books (0-553-34784-5), 1988.

Grove, Andrew S., Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, New York: Currency / Doubleday (0-385-48382-1), 1999 (1996).

Levy, Steven, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything, New York: Penguin Books (0-14-029177-6), 2000 (1994).

Wilson, Mike, The Difference between God and Larry Ellison—God doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation, New York: William Morrow (0-688-14925-1), 1997.



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