books by Tom Demarco

books by Tom Demarco

books:

Tom Demarco

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Tom DeMarco

Broadway, 2002

Indispensable Pithy Swath Through the Process Jungle
I agree that this is simultaneously a great screed on the inanity of most corporate management, and also a powerful indictment of the tendency of IT management to just go along, accepting a premise that is false and on most projects, is life-threatening. I totally ...

Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age

Tom Demarco

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1995

Better than The Deadline!
I first read the Deadline and then this book. And this should be the order in which you read these books. Why does software... is a collection of essays on software programming and management of these activities. It's a nice collection of easy to read essays which ...

Structured Analysis and System Specification (Yourdon Press Series)

Tom Demarco

Prentice Hall PTR, 1979

Changed the way I look at programming
This book offers data flow as a simple and powerful metaphor for programming. The idea is this: look at a program as a black box that takes information in and spews information out, then at each stage refine this black box by breaking it out into individual ones. I ...

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1999

Important Read For Contrarian Reasons
Much of this book is spent explaining what should be obvious to the best managers, but which corporate culture and priorities tend to work against. In general, the book looks more at typical mistakes than at recipes for success. At the same time, the advice is solid ...

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, ...

Dorset House, 2008

What to do right to make your projects work, even if it may appear to be wrong
I have been a fan of Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister for some time, their insights into the right way to manage information technology (IT) projects could be entitled, "The Way It Should Be Done." In this book, they are joined by their colleagues in the Atlantic Systems ...

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

Tom DeMarco

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1997

Too sad to be true
After working for a software company for more than 7 years , this book is actually of no surprise to me at all. However, those of you who want to know how software projects work in reality, this book is a very good and true reflection of that. We probably all studied ...

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003

A necessity for *developers*
Read this unsystematic and occasionally glib book (I concede this point to other reviewers) and you will suddenly realize that you, your colleagues in development, your technical leads, and your CEO have probably all been lying to yourselves and to each other about ...

Software Creativity 2.0

Robert L Glass

developer.* Books, 2006

Pragmatic Thinking in Software
Too often pragmatic concepts in software fall victim to zealot practitioners whose ideology includes panacean promises of one-click programming and ideas that good process guarantees a good product regardless of personnel. Too many people still promote their ideas and ...

Bärentango. Mit Risikomanagement Projekte zum Erfolg führen.
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Hanser Fachbuch, 2003

Waltzing With Bears **ISBN: 9780932633606**
Tom/ Lister, Timothy Demarco

Dorset House, 2003

Dark Harbor House

Tom DeMarco

Down East Books, 2000

It's just like a good dessert
Dark Harbor House is like a good dessert--delicious, satisfying and memorable. It is a combination drawing room comedy and coming of age story, set on a Maine island at the end of the 1940s, filled with genuinely funny, touching and believable characters, all of them ...