Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- The Mythical Man-Month – a book widely known as the bible of software engineering and software project management
[edit] References
- Zec, Joe (March 2002). "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". Software Quality Professional (American Society for Quality) 4 (2). ISSN 074321580X. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-277809041.html. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
- Ashbacher, Charles (Winter 2000). "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)". Mathematics and Computer Education (New York: MATYC Journal, Inc.) 34 (1). ISSN 0730-8639. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3950/is_200001/ai_n8897804/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
