- Peopleware
Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (ISBN 0-932633-43-9) is a popular
1987 book, written by software consultantsTom DeMarco andTimothy Lister , on the inside world of software develop-world conflicting natures between individual work perspective and corporate ideology. Topics include team gelling, group chemistry, corporate entropy, flow time, “teamicide” and workspace theory (for optimization).Overview
Peopleware is a popular book about project management. The first chapter of the book claims, “The major problems of our work are not so much "technological" as "sociological" in nature.” The book approaches sociological or ‘political’ problems such as team ‘gelling’, quiet in the work environment, and the high cost of turnover.
The authors presented most subjects as principles backed up by some concrete story or other information. As an example, the chapter “Spaghetti Dinner” presents a story (fictional, but similar to true stories) of a manager inviting a new team over for dinner and then having them buy and prepare the meal as a team, in order to produce a first team success. Other chapters use real-life stories or cite various studies to illustrate the principles being presented.
ee also
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Frederick Brooks , "The Mythical Man-Month ", a book widely known as the bible ofsoftware engineering andsoftware project management .External links
* [http://systemsguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Tom_DeMarco.html Tom DeMarco Home Page]
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