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36 Peopleware, 2nd ed. Partial Contents “This is my all-time favorite software engineering PART I: MANAGING THE HUMAN book. Peopleware accurately recognizes that software RESOURCE engineering is about people, not technology. • Somewhere Today, a Project Is “. it’s not just for managers, I strongly recom- Failing mend this book to everyone, from the most junior • Quality—If Time Permits engineer to the CEO.” PART II: THE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT Mark A. Herschberg — , Javaranch.com • The Furniture Police “. one of the most influential books I’ve ever read. • “You Never Get Anything Done The best way to describe it would be as an Anti-Dilbert Around Here Between 9 and 5” Manifesto. Ever wonder why everybody at Microsoft • Bring Back the Door Peopleware gets their own office, with walls and a door that shuts? PART III: THE RIGHT PEOPLE It’s in there. Why do managers give so much leeway to • Hiring a Juggler Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd ed. their teams to get things done? That’s in there too. • Happy to Be Here Why are there so many jelled SWAT teams at Microsoft PART IV: GROWING PRODUCTIVE by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister that are remarkably productive? Mainly because Bill TEAMS ISBN: 978-0-932633-43-9 Gates has built a company full of managers who read • Teamicide Peopleware. I can’t recommend this book highly ©1999 264 pages softcover • Chemistry for Team Formation $39.95 (includes $6 UPS in US) enough. It is the one thing every software manager PART V: IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUN needs to read . not just once, but once a year.” TO WORK HERE —Joel Spolsky, Fog Creek Software, www.joelonsoftware.com • Free Electrons A Project Management Best-Seller “ . even if you disagree with what DeMarco and Lis- • Holgar Dansk —Now Updated and Expanded ter say, you will enjoy how they say it, and you will go NEW! away thinking. Get the book and read it. Then give it PART VI: SON OF PEOPLEWARE wo of the computer industry’s iscover dozens of ingenious tips to your manager. Or, if you dare, your subordinates.” —Alan Campbell, Computing, London • Teamicide Revisited Tmost popular authors and lectur- Don how to Those Damn Posters and Plaques • Overtime: An Unanticipated Side Effect ers return with a new edition of the “This book is a treasure trove of valuable insights into the I put more quality into a product • Competition software management book that I loosen up formal methodologies psyches of software engineers and their managers. Consider an Analogy • Does It Matter? The started a revolution. “. a wonderfully entertaining presentation of Importance of Coaching • Teamicide Re-revis- I fight corporate entropy vital, sociological issues. Managers who fail to read ited • Mixing Metaphors ith humor and wisdom drawn I make it acceptable to be uninter- this are doing a disservice to their teams and organiza- • Process Improvement Programs from years of management A Short History • The Paradox of Process W ruptible tions.” —Joe Zec, Software Quality Professional Improvement Programs • It’s About the Bene- and consulting experience, DeMarco fit, Stupid • The Great Process Improvement and Lister demonstrate that the eopleware shows you how to cul- “Peopleware has become a classic on building effective Contradiction major issues of software develop- development teams. If you are a manager, you need this • Making Change Possible Ptivate teams that are healthy and book. It will help you design your team, group culture, And Now, a Few Words from Another ment are human, not technical—and productive. The answers aren’t Famous Systems Consultant . • That’s a and physical environment to maximize productivity.” Swell Idea, Boss. I’ll Get Right On It. that managers ignore them at their easy—just incredibly successful. —Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Consulting • Human Capital peril. Assessing the Investment in Human Capital “When the first edition appeared, I wrote a • What Is the Ramp-Up Time for an Experi- ow, with a new preface and About the Authors enced Worker? • Playing Up to Wall Street Neight new chapters—expand- review that said ‘I strongly recommend that om DeMarco and Tim- • Organizational Learning ing the original edition by one you buy one copy of Peopleware for yourself Experience and Learning • Redesign Exam- othy Lister are long- third—the authors enlarge upon and another copy for your boss. If you are a T ple • The Key Question About Organiza- boss, then buy one for everyone in your depart- time colleagues as princi- tional Learning • The Management Team • their previous ideas and add fresh pals of the Atlantic Sys- Danger in the White Space ment, and buy one for your boss.’ The advice • The Ultimate Management Sin Is . insights, examples, and potent anec- tems Guild (www.systems still holds 12 years later, and my recommenda- Status Meetings Are About Status • Early dotes. tion is even more enthusiastic . .” guild.com). 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