Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams ANNOTATION
Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister have updated and expanded their classic publication on growing and managing productive teams and successful software projects. And, they did it just in time for the 10th anniversary of their prescient first edition. As in the first edition, they emphasize the "human resource" and take a hard, incisive and many times humorous look at people, teams and their surroundings -- Peopleware, the source of success or failure for all software projects.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Two of the computer industry's best-selling 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, the authors enlarge upon their previous ideas and add fresh insights, examples, and anecdotes.
Discover dozens of helpful tips on
Putting more quality into a product Loosening up formal methodologies Fighting corporate entropy Making 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.
SYNOPSIS
Two of the computer industry's best-selling 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.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Highlights ways in which managers fail to motivate members of teams to produce their best work, and demonstrates methods for improvement. Advocates such changes as elimination of the "police mentality" in management and investment by bosses in superior workspace for employees. Dismisses many of management's favorite canards, including the one that states that workers are inefficient when working from home. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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