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Authors

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Binding

Paperback

245 pages

Publication Date

8/14/08

Publisher

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN

0932633439

Bookhuddle Average Rating

(4.5)

Amazon.com^® Average Rating

(4.5)

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Number of Reviews: 82,   Amazon.com^® Average Rating: (4.5)

(5)   AF

This book is not new, but still has a lot of good ideas and vision inside. Highly recommended!

(2)   Showing its age

This is the book whose title has become synonymous with managing teams in software companies. Though this 2nd edition came out in 1999, most of the content is identical to that of the original 1987 edition. 22 years later, that's a problem. So much of our common practices and conventional wisdom have changed (in part due to the impact of this book) that much of the advice in the book is obsolete. True, gems like the inverse relationship between noise and code quality will likely stay relevant for a century, but most of this book is about getting programmers to work together. The fact is, today's programmer is a different beast from the programmer of the '80s.

For more up-to-date material, you might look to the Joel on Software books, or any number of blogs.

(5)   A book which will always be relevant...

The basis for building effective project teams is always dependent on team dynamics, facilitation, the available technology as well as the work environment...In this book, the author's present well tested recommendations for effectively managing information technology (IT) projects and their teams...The book shows why the human aspects of project management are usually more difficult to manage than technology ... I gave my son this book to read since he is a computer science major at Johns Hopkins University and I know that its information will be useful to his career.

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