MTU Library Catalogue

Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Peopleware : productive projects and teams / Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister.

By: DeMarco, Tom.
Contributor(s): Lister, Timothy R.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Dorset House Pub., 1999Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0932633439 .Subject(s): Management | Organizational behavior | Organizational effectiveness | Project managementDDC classification: 658.314
Contents:
Part I: Managing the human resource -- Somewhere today, a project is failing -- Make a cheeseburger, sell a cheeseburger -- Vienna waits for you -- Quality - If time permits -- Parkinson's law revisited -- Laetrile -- Part II: The office environment -- The furniture police -- You never get anything done around here between 9 and 5 -- Saving money on space -- Intermezzo: Productivity measurement and unidentified flying objects -- Brain time versus body time -- The telephone -- Bring back the door -- Taking umbrella steps -- Part III: The right people -- The hornblower factor -- Hiring a juggler -- Happy to be here -- The self-healing system -- Part IV: Growing productive teams -- The whole is greater than the sum of the parts -- The black team -- Teamicide -- A spaghetti dinner -- Open kimono -- Chemistry for team formation -- Part V: It's supposed to be fun to work here -- Chaos and order -- Free electrons -- Holgar Dansk -- Part VI: Son of peopleware -- Teamicide revisited -- Competition -- Process improvement programs -- Making change possible -- Human capital -- Organizational learning -- The ultimate management sin is ... -- The making of community.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00112323
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00112321
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00112324
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00112325
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00105255
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.Now, with a new Preface and eight new chapters, the authors enlarge upon their previous ideas and add fresh insights, examples, and anecdotes.Discover dozens of helpful tips on- putting more quality into a product- loosening up formal methodologies- fighting corporate entropy- making it acceptable to be uninterruptiblePeopleware, 2nd ed. shows you how to cultivate teams that are healthy and productive. The answers aren't easy -- just incredibly successful.

Bibliography: (pages 233-238) and index.

Part I: Managing the human resource -- Somewhere today, a project is failing -- Make a cheeseburger, sell a cheeseburger -- Vienna waits for you -- Quality - If time permits -- Parkinson's law revisited -- Laetrile -- Part II: The office environment -- The furniture police -- You never get anything done around here between 9 and 5 -- Saving money on space -- Intermezzo: Productivity measurement and unidentified flying objects -- Brain time versus body time -- The telephone -- Bring back the door -- Taking umbrella steps -- Part III: The right people -- The hornblower factor -- Hiring a juggler -- Happy to be here -- The self-healing system -- Part IV: Growing productive teams -- The whole is greater than the sum of the parts -- The black team -- Teamicide -- A spaghetti dinner -- Open kimono -- Chemistry for team formation -- Part V: It's supposed to be fun to work here -- Chaos and order -- Free electrons -- Holgar Dansk -- Part VI: Son of peopleware -- Teamicide revisited -- Competition -- Process improvement programs -- Making change possible -- Human capital -- Organizational learning -- The ultimate management sin is ... -- The making of community.