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...
Tom DeMarco quotes about
craziness expecting result
Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result
focus strive projects
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.
guarantees-that schedules pathology
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
development prisoner supervision
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
emotional fundamentals logical
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.