A review by tilgovi
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg

4.0

The book chronicles Rosenberg's attempt to write about Open Source Software and its drift into an exploration of "software time", or the cycles and trials of software development, as experienced by a fly on the wall at the Open Source Applications Foundation during the development of their productivity software, Chandler. Rosenberg's style is friendly, making this a fairly quick read, and he does a good job of balancing exploration and summary to keep the narrative accessible, yet mildly technical at points. Interesting takeaways about management, morale, product life-cycle, team dynamics, etc. Just when the book seems to begin to wind on like a project off the rails, itself, it wraps up neatly with good perspective.