Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
In Books
by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Software development is a big part of Forio's e-learning simulations. DeMarco and Lister explain why the major issues of software development are human, not technical. The authors have original and insightful ideas on on time estimation of software projects, space requirements for programmers, why a quiet and private workspace is essential to efficient programming. They also have excellent ideas on how to hire great programmers.
We want to make Forio great place to work and the implementation of many of the ideas in Peopleware is part of what we believe we need to do in order to be successful.
Posted by Michael Bean
June 10th, 2007 at 4:50 am
I Would like to know if this book talk about labor relations in the software factories or software industry. Tnks
June 11th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I don't remember much in the book about union-type issues. But a key part of the book is about how managers can grow great teams. To me, that's pretty closely related. Here's the table of contents.
http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/pwcontents.html