'' '''Microsoft Secrets:''' How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People'' by Michael Cusumano and Richard Shelby, Free Press 1995. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0028740483.01._PE_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg [ISBN 0028740483] It has a good description of the SynchAndStabilize process used for getting applications integrated and finally into a ShippableState. -- PeteMcBreen ---- CategoryBook