Jim McCarthy (author)

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Jim McCarthy is an author and keynote speaker on software engineering practices. While working at Microsoft, he led the team that developed Visual C++^[1] 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,^[1]^[2] and holds a key patent on instant messaging.^[3]

Jim McCarthy

Nationality (legal)	American
Occupation	Author
Notable work	Software for Your Head, Dynamics of Software Development

Publications edit

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

References edit

^ ^a ^b "About Us". The McCarthy Show. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
^ "Jim McCarthy". InformIT. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
^ Mezick, Dan (2012-12-03). "The Core Protocols". InfoQ. Retrieved 2017-06-17.

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