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“Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco (1978). “Structured analysis and system specification”, Yourdon Press
#Children Quotes
#Damage Quotes
#Analysis Quotes
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“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
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Tom DeMarco
#Inspiring Quotes
#Live Life Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“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.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
#Team Quotes
#People Quotes
#Leader Quotes
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“The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.”
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Tom DeMarco
#Art Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Average Quotes
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“First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco (2001). “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”, p.95, Crown Business
#Law Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Management Quotes
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“The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". Book by Tom DeMarco, 1987.
#People Quotes
#Function Quotes
#Working It Quotes
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“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.”
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Tom DeMarco
#Focus Quotes
#Strive Quotes
#Projects Quotes
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“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley
#Quality Quotes
#Pay Quotes
#Willing Quotes
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“The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley
#Guarantees Quotes
#Schedules Quotes
#Pathology Quotes
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“The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.136, Addison-Wesley
#Team Quotes
#Goal Quotes
#Purpose Quotes
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“The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.”
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Tom DeMarco
#Emotional Quotes
#Fundamentals Quotes
#Logical Quotes
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“Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.”
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Tom DeMarco
#Quality Quotes
#Bugs Quotes
#Testing Quotes
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“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.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
#Team Quotes
#People Quotes
#Leader Quotes
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“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.”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
#Team Quotes
#Games Quotes
#Hypocrisy Quotes
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“You can't control what you can't measure”
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Tom DeMarco
Source : Robert L. Glass, Tom DeMarco (2006). “Software Creativity 2.0”, p.130, developer.* Books
