I found these editorials buried on Steve McConnell's website, from his stint as editor of IEEE software magazine. It's a great series of articles; they're all good, but I particularly recommend "Cargo Cult Engineering." Here are direct links to each, in chronological order, October 1998 through February 2002.
- Building the Community
- How To Read A Technical Article
- After the Gold Rush
- Software Engineering Principles
- Open Source Methodology: Ready for Prime Time?
- Update on Professional Development
- Brooks' Law Repealed?
- 10 Best Influences on Software Engineering
- Cargo Cult Software Engineering
- Sitting on the Suitcase
- The Software Manager's Toolkit
- What's In a Name?
- Quantifying Soft Factors
- Who Needs Software Engineering?
- Art, Science, and Engineering
- An Ounce of Prevention
- Common Sense
- Nine Deadly Sins of Project Planning
- Raising Your Software Consciousness
- Closing the Gap