I'm disappointed to see a book aimed at "professional" developers continue to spread outdated and debunked information, such as the NIST "study" adduced as evidence for the imperative necessity of "defect cost containment". See my post on the topic: https://plus.google.com/+LaurentBossavit/posts/8QLBPXA9miZ
I'll add my voice to those that have already stated such a book shouldn't start by assuming the SDLC as a reference model: it embodies too many of those outdated assumptions. More in that vein in my own book http://leanpub.com/leprechauns
Or again the Wikipedia page on the history of software engineering, which is frightfully inadequate. https://plus.google.com/+LaurentBossavit/posts/gpSwoWn4CBK
I'll add my voice to those that have already stated such a book shouldn't start by assuming the SDLC as a reference model: it embodies too many of those outdated assumptions. More in that vein in my own book http://leanpub.com/leprechauns