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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

79 reviews
Tom; Lister, Timothy Demarco

Dorset House, 1987

Important Read For Contrarian Reasons
Much of this book is spent explaining what should be obvious to the best managers, but which corporate culture and priorities tend to work against. In general, the book looks more at typical mistakes than at recipes for success. At the same time, the advice is solid and they often provide data to back up their assertions. If I was a manager at a typical and mediocre corporation, I would not ...

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

23 reviews
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003

A necessity for *developers*
Read this unsystematic and occasionally glib book (I concede this point to other reviewers) and you will suddenly realize that you, your colleagues in development, your technical leads, and your CEO have probably all been lying to yourselves and to each other about every single "milestone". Risk analysis is not merely done badly most of the time. It's usually not done at all. I learned enough ...

Dark Harbor House

3 reviews
Tom DeMarco

Down East Books, 2000

It's just like a good dessert
Dark Harbor House is like a good dessert--delicious, satisfying and memorable. It is a combination drawing room comedy and coming of age story, set on a Maine island at the end of the 1940s, filled with genuinely funny, touching and believable characters, all of them keenly but gently observed, and written with care and verve. The book takes place in more innocent times than today, and yet ...

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

52 reviews
Tom DeMarco

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1997

Too sad to be true
After working for a software company for more than 7 years , this book is actually of no surprise to me at all. However, those of you who want to know how software projects work in reality, this book is a very good and true reflection of that. We probably all studied Project Management Essentials, but all the projects I have been involved in so far, run more like the one described in this book ...

Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age

12 reviews
Tom Demarco

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1995

Better than The Deadline!
I first read the Deadline and then this book. And this should be the order in which you read these books. Why does software... is a collection of essays on software programming and management of these activities. It's a nice collection of easy to read essays which will spark your thinking about these issues. And of course it is about the two things (among many other sideline topics) Tom ...

Structured Analysis and System Specification

7 reviews
Tom DeMarco

Yourdon, 1979

Changed the way I look at programming
This book offers data flow as a simple and powerful metaphor for programming. The idea is this: look at a program as a black box that takes information in and spews information out, then at each stage refine this black box by breaking it out into individual ones. I read this book many years ago and it remains the most useful book on program design that I have read. It was written before object ...

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

11 reviews
Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, ...

Dorset House, 2008

Another classic from "those Peopleware guys"
The title and cover caught my eye (today!) in the bookstore and after flipping through, I couldn't wait to get home and blow through it. It's clear why this is getting a 5-star average here @ Amazon. Written by the same folks who authored Peopleware (classic skilled-person management book), it contains ~80 patterns of project behaviour alternating between helpful and harmful. Almost ...

Software Creativity 2.0

6 reviews
Robert L Glass

developer.* Books, 2006

Pragmatic Thinking in Software
Too often pragmatic concepts in software fall victim to zealot practitioners whose ideology includes panacean promises of one-click programming and ideas that good process guarantees a good product regardless of personnel. Too many people still promote their ideas and methodologies as cure-alls. These people treat software as a franchise with a factory-line assembly and replaceable parts. It ...

Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie

1 review
Tom DeMarco

Down East Books, 2002

Startlingly Good
DeMarco writes with a delicate touch, a compassionate sense of humor, and a great sense of atmosphere. The places are real, the people complex and interesting, and the plotting full of surprises. At several times in reading this book I laughed out loud. There is much here to delight.

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency

38 reviews
Tom Demarco

Dorset House, 2001

Indispensable Pithy Swath Through the Process Jungle
I agree that this is simultaneously a great screed on the inanity of most corporate management, and also a powerful indictment of the tendency of IT management to just go along, accepting a premise that is false and on most projects, is life-threatening. I totally disagree with the one bad reviewer who claims the book is below the bar of even anecdotal, and boring. On the contrary, much of ...

Der Termin
Tom DeMarco

Hanser Fachbuchverlag, 2005

Bärentango. Mit Risikomanagement Projekte zum Erfolg führen.
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Hanser Fachbuch, 2003

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