Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:
- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
- Masters of Doom - David Kushner.
- Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)
Pretty cool in different ways:
- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).
- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.
- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).
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Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:
- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner - Masters of Doom - David Kushner. - Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)
Pretty cool in different ways:
- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).
- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.
- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).
http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
Among other things, read the section "Into the Ground", which is the story of Lucid, Inc. in the late '80s.