Der Termin, Hanser : München 1998, ISBN 978344641439-6, S. 210.
"It’s not what you don’t know that kills you but what you know that isn’t so." - The Deadline, Dorset House 1997, p. 284
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Tom DeMarcoTom DeMarco Berühmte Zitate
Der Termin, Hanser : München 1998, ISBN 978344641439-6, S. 182.
"Each of us secretly believes he or she is of below-average intelligence compared to the others, and has to make up for it by trying harder. As we read through a horrible morass of complexity like the RGS spec, our secret doubt makes us believe that all the others who are reading it are understanding what they read." - The Deadline, Dorset House 1997, p. 211
Der Termin, Hanser : München 1998, ISBN 978344641439-6, S. 255.
"Lean and Mean is a formula developed in failing companies by the people responsible for the failure." - The Deadline, Dorset House 1997, p. 299
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“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Quelle: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 34.
“It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.”
The Deadline (1997), p. 284.
Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age, (1995), p. 218.
“You can't control what you can't measure”
Controlling Software Projects, Management Measurement & Estimation, (1982), p. 3.
“People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.”
Quelle: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 18.
Quelle: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 32.
“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”
Quelle: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 23.