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Peopleware
Productive Projects and Teams
2nd ed.
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
- 8 Want to read
Published
1999
by
Dorset House Pub.
in
New York, NY
.
Written in English
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First Sentence
Most of us managers are prone to one particular failing: a tendency to manage people as though they were modular components.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ix | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | xi | |
| Preface to the First Edition | xiiii | |
| I | Managing the Human Resource | 1 |
| 1 | Somewhere Today, a Project is Failing | 3 |
| 2 | Make a Cheeseburger, Sell a Cheeseburger | 7 |
| 3 | Vienna Waits for You | 13 |
| 4 | Quailty - If Time Permits | 19 |
| 5 | Parkinson's Law Revisited | 24 |
| II | The Office Environment | 35 |
| 7 | The Furniture Police | 37 |
| 8 | "You Never Get Anything Done Around Here Between 9 and 5" | 42 |
| 9 | Saving Money on Space | 51 |
| Intermezzo | Productivity Measureent and Unidentified Flying Objects | 58 |
| 10 | Brain Time Versus Body Time | 62 |
| 11 | The Telephone | 69 |
| 12 | Bring Back The Door | 75 |
| 13 | Taking Umbrella Steps | 81 |
| III | The Right People | 93 |
| 14 | The Hornblower Factor | 95 |
| 15 | Hiring a Juggler | 100 |
| 16 | Happy to Be Here | 105 |
| 17 | The Self-Healing System | 113 |
| IV | Growing Productive Teams | 121 |
| 18 | The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts | 123 |
| 19 | The Black Team | 129 |
| 20 | Teamicide | 132 |
| 21 | A Spaghetti Dinner | 140 |
| 22 | Open Kimono | 143 |
| 23 | Chemistry fo Tea Formation | 150 |
| V | It's Supposed to Be Fun to Work Here | 157 |
| 24 | Chaos and Order | 159 |
| 25 | Free Electrons | 167 |
| 26 | Holgar Dansk | 171 |
| VI | Son of Peopleware | 175 |
| 27 | Teamicide Revisited | 177 |
| 28 | Copetition | 181 |
| 29 | Process Improvement Programs | 186 |
| 30 | Making Change Possible | 194 |
| 31 | Huan Capital | 202 |
| 32 | Organizational Learning | 209 |
| 33 | The Ultimate Management Sin Is... | 215 |
| 34 | The Making of Community | 222 |
| Notes | 227 | |
| Bibliography | 233 | |
| Index | 239 | |
| About the Authors | 248 |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index.
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