Peopleware ebook

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.

Tom DeMarco is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, a computer systems think tank with offices in the U.S. and Great Britain. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing." His most recent work is an expanded, second edition of the classic Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. In the summer of 1997, Dorset House published his award-winning The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management. It is the story of a veteran software manager who bets his life on a delivery date. Mr. DeMarco's book of essays, published in 1995, is entitled Why Does Software Cost So Much? (And Other Puzzles of the Information Age), also from Dorset House. His prior works include more than one hundred articles and papers about management and the system development process. In 1990, he served with Tim Lister as co-editors of Software State-of-the-Art: Selected Papers (with Timothy Lister) Mr. DeMarco's career began at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he served as part of the now-legendary ESS-1 project. In later years, he managed real-time projects for La CEGOS Informatique in France, and was responsible for distributed on-line banking systems installed in Sweden, Holland, France and Finland. He has lectured and consulted throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Far East. Mr. DeMarco has a BSEE degree from Cornell University, an M.S. from Columbia University and a diplome from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne. In his spare time, he is an Emergency Medical Technician, certified by his home state and by the National Registry of EMTs, and a founding member of The Penobscot Compact, a business-education partnership operating under the auspices of the Maine State Aspirations Program. He makes his home in Camden, Maine. Timothy Lister is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild and author of two best-selling Dorset House books (the new second edition of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams and Software State-of-the-Art: Selected Papers, with Tom DeMarco) and a ground-breaking training video (Productive Teams: A Video, with Tom DeMarco). Based in Manhattan, Tim divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing, mostly in the area of risk management for software organizations and projects. Lister also negotiates software disputes for the American Arbitration Association and participates on the Airlie Council of the DoD's Software Program Manager's Network.

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