Peopleware: productive projects and teams
The book “Peopleware: productive projects and teams ” - 2-nd edition of the world famous best seller about management of projects of development ON.
The first edition contained revolutionary on those times (1987) ideas which have sustained check by time. Authors have corrected the conclusions and have added some new chapters.
Value of this book that in her principles are described, behind each of which real history. All of the chapter supervision and contain innovative approaches which will force readers and heads to see the important questions in new, more reasonable foreshortening. With humour and the wisdom found for years of a management and consultation, Authors show, that the most complicated problems of development ON have human, instead of the technical nature. They do not give simple answers, but give correct, supported by scientific researches.
The edition is intended first of all to heads of projects, but it will be useful also for ordinary programmers.
About authors
Volume Tom Demarko and Timothy Lister head consulting company Atlantic Systems Guild atlsysguild.com with branches in New York and London. Since 1979 they together read lectures, write books and articles and advise projects worldwide, specializing on estimations, productivity, a management and corporate culture.
Volume Demarko has written in total six books, including ” The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management “, Dorset House, 1997. In 1986 he became the owner of a prize of Jean-Dominica Vorne for the contribution to computer science. The volume specializes on a management of projects and a technique.
Timothy Lister is engaged in teaching, journalism and consultation concerning minimization of risks in projects on development of the software. Tim also participates in the sanction of questions at issue under the software in Arbitration Association of the USA and enters into committee Airlie of a network of heads of projects of Ministry of Defence of the USA.
Opinions of experts
” Necessarily buy copy Peopleware and more one - to the boss. If you the chief, buy on a copy to each employee and more to one chief. ”
- American Programmer
” Authors know a lot of interesting about an estimation of expenses of time, about needs for working space and silence on a workplace, about phones and catalysts of commands, about pleasure from job, on opennesses, tests at hiring and about many other things. ”
- Albert Ledyuk, CAUSE/EFFECT
” Many recommendations from this book became slogans of the modern leading companies: to give developers lonely studies, to disconnect system of public announcements, to give phones having a mode ” to not disturb “, to listen to candidates on participation in projects and so on. Owing to so serious reputation new edition Peopleware - from those books, that I shall buy not looking. ”
- Steve Mak-Konnel, IEEE Software
” Demarko and Lister - simultaneously both magnificent story-tellers, and shrewd observers in the field of a management of projects. ”
- John H. Taylor, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.
” … fascinating reading - authors illustrate the statement and decisions histories from own experience of consultation. This well thought over book so is convincing, because her advice are supported by scientific substantiations. ”
- Magazine PC World
” Authors support the statements with the empirical data received during research, participation in which have accepted more than 900 programmers and analysts. All of the chapter contain on-watching and innovative approaches which will force readers and heads to see the important questions in new, more reasonable foreshortening. The stated ideas are important, and the book deserves a place on a book shelf of any head development ON and any adviser on management. ”
- T. Capers Jones
” Lister and Damarko ruthlessly destroy axioms of initial wisdom, serially using well picked up examples, prickly epigrams, precise logic and even scientific data even if you do not agree with their ideas, you will like style of a statement, and the book will provoke you to reflections. Find the book, read it. Then give its head. Or to the subordinates (if the boldness will suffice). ”
- Alan Campbell, Computing, London
- ” … represents in new light behaviour of people in projects on development. ”
- To that Tomoo Matsubara, Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.
” … their supervision comprehend an essence of things. And as a result wisdom turns out. ”
- Ware Myers, IEEE Computer Society