Steve McConnell
STEVE MCCONNELL is best known as the author of Code Complete, a software industry classic that is often described as the best-reviewed, best-selling software development book of all time. Steve’s books have sold more than 1 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages. His most recent book is More Effective Agile: A Roadmap for Software Leaders.

Steve has been recognized as one of the world’s leading software development experts for more than two decades and has worked with hundreds of software leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to garage start-ups. In 1998, readers of Software Development magazine named Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry, along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.  In 2019, the Forbes Technology Council named his book, Code Complete, “the single best cornerstone book on good software development.” Steve has been quoted in The Economist, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major publications.

Steve is also a leading expert in software measurement, and author of Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art,  which won Amazon’s computer and internet book of the year award in 2006. During the Covid pandemic, Steve’s CovidComplete forecast model was consistently among the most accurate of the models contributing to the CDC’s forecast model of record.

Steve is the founder and CEO of Construx Software, a software consulting and training firm based in Bellevue, Washington.  

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Recent Publications

Expect Next Week’s Covid Death Tolls to be Sensationally Exaggerated – Medium | Nov 28, 2020

Europe Controlled Covid-19 While America Failed. Or Was It the Opposite? – Medium | Nov 8, 2020

Be Grateful America Hasn’t Managed Covid-19 Like Europe Has – Medium | Nov 2, 2020

The One Graph You Need to Understand Covid-19 Comorbidities – Medium | Oct 02, 2020

Five Wrong Ways to Do Covid-19 Data Smoothing – Medium | Oct 01, 2020

The Graphs You Need to Understand the Covid-19 Pandemic – Medium | Sep 30, 2020

This is Why You Should Ignore IHME’s Forecasts – Medium | Sep 08, 2020

Covid-19 Comorbidities are the Elephant in the Room – Medium | Aug 09, 2020

Age-Specific Risks for Covid-19 to the Individual Year – Medium | Aug 01, 2020

Why Comparisons of Covid-19 Fatality Rates are Misleading – Medium | Jul 30, 2020

The Uncanny Consistency of Covid-19 Age-Based Fatality Data – Medium | Jul 24, 2020

New Data Shows a Lower Covid-19 Fatality Rate – Medium | July 9, 2020

Why Covid-19 Deaths in New York Were Inevitable – Medium | June 28, 2020

Working From Home in the Age of Coronavirus – Medium | June 25, 2020

In The News

I’ve been quoted or cited in major publications ranging from The Economist, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Guardian to The Onion.

Here is a collection of interviews I’ve done and articles I’ve been quoted in. If you would like to schedule an interview, quote me, or if you find an article not listed here please email me: stevemcc@construx.com.

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Interviews