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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco

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A quick read and remarkably timeless. It's also interesting that there's occasional hints at ways you as an employee can tell if the company you are working for is in deep trouble. These don't seem to get cited as much but pretty valuabe. If I was a manager this would be a book on my bookshelf without a doubt.
  JonathanGorman | Oct 31, 2009 |
Probably ground-breaking in its time, but the notions of taking care of employees, "gelling" teams and reducing interruptions are pretty much a standard for modern advice on management. A bit dated. ( )
  | Oct 25, 2008 | edit | |
A good programmer manager book. The type of manager that this book advocates wouldn't seem to be managing at all. Merely giving direction when necessary.

I don't think I could ever work for a company with 'Furniture Police'. ( )
  dvf1976 | Apr 24, 2008 |
The list of software management books can start and end with Peopleware. ( )
  regholz | Feb 2, 2008 |
A brilliant book, one of the few that undercovers the truth about people management in software development projects, and goes beyond sterile metrics. Makes you realize which are your typical mistakes and why you are doing them. And provides strategies not to repeat them. ( )
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0932633439, Paperback)

Peopleware asserts that most software development projects fail because of failures within the team running them. This strikingly clear, direct book is written for software development-team leaders and managers, but it's filled with enough commonsense wisdom to appeal to anyone working in technology. Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister include plenty of illustrative, often amusing anecdotes; their writing is light, conversational, and filled with equal portions of humor and wisdom, and there is a refreshing absence of "new age" terms and multistep programs. The advice is presented straightforwardly and ranges from simple issues of prioritization to complex ways of engendering harmony and productivity in your team. Peopleware is a short read that delivers more than many books on the subject twice its size.

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