Introduction to the Personal Software Process

Makes an engineer really productive. Great for improving your performance. However, this book has NOTHING to do with software... really, it talks about it heavily... but the software discussion is not relevant. So just be aware.

I bought this book because it was required for my class. While the book does contain a lot of information about how to properly organize your time while writing software, I found its techniques to be too time consuming and involved to actually help my workflow

The book is easy to read and well written. Excellent companion for all engineering students. I would recomend this to all engineers that want to further there career.

The first half of this book is dedicated to training an engineer on how to manage his most valuable resource - time. I haven't read the second half yet but I would still class this as a must read for software engineers. I'm sure that much of the information contained in this book is presented elsewhere but this book is written specifically from the perspective of a software engineer (or any engineer, for that matter). After reading the first 10 chapters, an enginner will have an appreciation of how to set reasonable and realistic targets for completing projects and with a little practice, he will be able to consistently meet these targets. Overall, this book is just a collection of common sense advice but then again, how many of us live by common sense?!

This is a good book overall and covers all the basic concepts pertaining to softeare engineering. But, if you by chance are a CMU student, you should be looking for the book published by Addison-Wesley.