Tom DeMarco quotes
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“Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco (1978). “Structured analysis and system specification”, Yourdon Press
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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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“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.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
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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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“First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco (2001). “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”, p.95, Crown Business
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“The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". Book by Tom DeMarco, 1987.
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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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“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley
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“The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley
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“The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.136, Addison-Wesley
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“The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.”
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“Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.”
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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.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
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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.”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
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“You can't control what you can't measure”
-- Tom DeMarcoSource : Robert L. Glass, Tom DeMarco (2006). “Software Creativity 2.0”, p.130, developer.* Books
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