Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarcois an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics. He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s...
development prisoner supervision
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
barrier companies company entry large obtain patents software thousands
If a large company were to obtain thousands of software patents every year, the barrier to entry of new software companies could become insurmountable.
case china company driving incentive innovation software start
Now you can make the case that it's driving innovation offshore. If you want to start a new software company that does something imaginative and wonderful, you have every incentive to start that company in Slovenia or China or a place that doesn't have these rules.
comparable patent software
Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.
craziness expecting result
Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result
team games hypocrisy
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.
emotional fundamentals logical
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
team people leader
What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.
organization ifs unchangeable
If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
practice training experts
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
guarantees-that schedules pathology
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
team goal purpose
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
quality bugs defects
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
busy busy-work organizational
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.