INTRODUCTION

I recently reviewed Kevin Tate's Sustainable Software Development: An Agile Perspective (Addison-Wesley, 2006) for the Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) newsletter In-the-SPIN. The book contains a roadmap to a software development organization that can produce high-quality, feature-rich software year after year without burning out the programmers or the managers. In my review, I generally praise Tate's emphasis on sustainability as key to success in software development.