Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (July 15, 2013) © 2013

  • Tom DeMarco
  • Tim Lister
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In this classic book, the authors demonstrate the major human - not technical - issues of software development and give challenging, but successful answers to the questions of software managers and developers. For this edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today’s development environments and challenges. The book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadn’t previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organisation will find invaluable advice throughout the book.

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  • Chapter 1: Somewhere Today, a Project Is Failing
  • Chapter 2: Make a Cheeseburger, Sell a Cheeseburger
  • Chapter 3: Vienna Waits for You
  • Chapter 4: Quality—If Time Permits
  • Chapter 5: Parkinson’s Law Revisited
  • Chapter 6: Laetrile
  • Chapter 7: The Furniture Police
  • Chapter 8: “You Never Get Anything Done around Here between 9 and 5.”
  • Chapter 9: Saving Money on Space
  • Chapter 10: Brain Time versus Body Time
  • Chapter 11: The Telephone
  • Chapter 12: Bring Back the Door
  • Chapter 13: Taking Umbrella Steps
  • Chapter 14: The Hornblower Factor
  • Chapter 15: Let’s Talk about Leadership
  • Chapter 16: Hiring a Juggler
  • Chapter 17: Playing Well with Others
  • Chapter 18: Childhood’s End
  • Chapter 19: Happy to Be Here
  • Chapter 20: Human Capital
  • Chapter 21: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
  • Chapter 22: The Black Team
  • Chapter 23: Teamicide
  • Chapter 24: Teamicide Revisited
  • Chapter 25: Competition
  • Chapter 26: A Spaghetti Dinner
  • Chapter 27: Open Kimono
  • Chapter 28: Chemistry for Team Formation
  • Chapter 29: The Self-Healing System
  • Chapter 30: Dancing with Risk
  • Chapter 31: Meetings, Monologues, and Conversations
  • Chapter 32: The Ultimate Management Sin Is . . .
  • Chapter 33: E(vil) Mail
  • Chapter 34: Making Change Possible
  • Chapter 35: Organizational Learning
  • Chapter 36: The Making of Community
  • Chapter 37: Chaos and Order
  • Chapter 38: Free Electrons
  • Chapter 39: Holgar Dansk

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