By Force of Will by Scott Donaldson

By Force of Will by Scott Donaldson

Donaldson's skill is really a rare and fine art everyone who is interested in twentieth-century fiction or in the art of biography or in the mysterious relationship between the temperament of an artist and the work he produces should have By Force of Will within arm's reach. In its way it is a masterpiece. --Walter Sullivan, The Sewanee Review

Not the least of its virtues is the way in which it allows its reader to play along with a masterly scholarly detective. --San Francisco Examiner

Scott E.Donaldson has over 30 years of experience managing complex programs (varying in size from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars), as well as competence in system development, process improvement, and technical cultural change. He is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at SAIC's multibillion-dollar Health, Energy, and Civilian Solutions Group and a Senior Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). At Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, he teaches graduate courses in software engineering, software process improvement, and information technology. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Operations Research and a M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. Donaldson co-authored the Prentice Hall PTR software engineering books Effective Software Development: Making It Happen, 2nd Edition; Successful Software Development: Study Guide, Prentice Hall PTR; and Fostering Successful Software Development: A Practitioner's Perspective, Prentice Hall PTR. He's written for CRC Press' Encyclopedia of Software Engineering: Project Management Success Factors and the 3rd Edition of the Handbook of Software Quality Assurance: Software Configuration Management A Practical Look.