Full name: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Authors: Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780932633439 0932633439

Two of the computer industry's most popular authors and lecturers return with a new edition of the software management book that started a revolution.With humor and wisdom drawn from years of management and consulting experience, DeMarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical -- and that managers ignore them at their peril. Now, with a new preface and eight new chapters -- expanding the original edition by one third -- the authors enlarge upon their previous ideas and add fresh insights, examples, and potent anecdotes. Discover dozens of ingenious tips on how to -- put more quality into a product -- loosen up formal methodologies -- fight corporate entropy -- make it acceptable to be uninterruptible Peopleware shows you how to cultivate teams that are healthy and productive. The answers aren't easy -- just incredibly successful. Similar books: Death march by Edward Yourdon Waltzing With Bears by Tom DeMarco Smart and Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell Rapid Development by Steve McConnell Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun Slack by Tom DeMarco The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert I. Sutton Managers Not MBAs by Henry Mintzberg Managing Humans by Michael Lopp Zero to One by Peter Thiel The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug Write. Publish. Repeat. by Sean Platt Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull Scaling Up by Verne Harnish Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya