Author
Tracy Kidder was an American nonfiction writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Soul of a New Machine, his 1981 account of a computer engineering team racing to build a new minicomputer. His later works included the acclaimed Mountains Beyond Mountains, a biography of physician Paul Farmer.
by Tracy Kidder
Kidder follows engineers at Data General racing to build a minicomputer under impossible deadlines. It's a portrait of how obsession and rivalry drive technological creation.
The books Tracy Kidder references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Frederick Brooks
Brooks argues that adding more programmers to a late project makes it later - a principle now known as Brooks' Law. The deeper insight: software complexity grows faster than headcount, making communication the real bottleneck.
Who Tracy draws from, and who draws from Tracy — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.