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...
craziness expecting result
Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result
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.
team people leader
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
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.
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.
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.