Robert Glass

Author of the "Practical Programmer" column in the CommunicationsOfTheAssociationForComputingMachinery, the "Loyal Opposition" column in IeeeSoftware, and the author of several terrific books on software reliability:

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering ISBN 0-321-11742-5
ComputingFailure.com ISBN 0-13-091739-7
Software Runaways ISBN 0-13-673443-X
Building Quality Software ISBN 0-13-086695-4
Software Reliability Guidebook ISBN 0-13-821785-8
Software Conflict ISBN 0-13-826157-1 ]
Software Conflict 2.0 (re-issuing of above book with retrospective comments) ISBN 0-9772133-0-7
Software Soliloquies