Before Steve McConnell founded Bellevue-based Construx in 1996, he knew he had to change. McConnell spent his 20s at several startups, admittedly viewing each successive position as a way to get rich.

“Go with your gut, then multiply by three.” So goes the conventional wisdom about estimating the cost of software development, a critical business task that very few companies do well, according to ...

Steve McConnell is CEO and chief software engineer at Construx Software, but you’re more likely to recognize his name as the author of Code Complete and several other books that made him a software ...