Peopleware
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Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (ISBN 0-932633-43-9) is a popular 1987 book on Peopleware
, written by software consultants Tom DeMarco
and Timothy Lister, on the inside world of software development. It examines the conflicts between individual work perspective and corporate ideology. Topics include team jelling, group chemistry, corporate entropy, flow time, “teamicide” and workspace theory (for optimization).
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.
Peopleware
Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams is a popular 1987 book on Peopleware, written by software consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, on the inside world of software development. It examines the conflicts between individual work perspective and corporate ideology...
, written by software consultants Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarco is an American software engineer, author, teacher and speaker on software engineering topics. He is known as one of the developers of Structured analysis in the 1980s.- Biography :...
and Timothy Lister, on the inside world of software development. It examines the conflicts between individual work perspective and corporate ideology. Topics include team jelling, 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 ‘jelling’, 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.
See also
- The Mythical Man-MonthThe Mythical Man-MonthThe Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"...
– a book widely known as the bible of software engineeringSoftware engineeringSoftware Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
and software project managementSoftware project managementSoftware project management is the art and science of planning and leading software projects. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled.-History:...