Tom DeMarco Quotes

Tom DeMarco is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics. He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. August 1940
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Famous Tom DeMarco Quotes

“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”

Source: 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.

“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.”

Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 18.

“While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.”

Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 32.

“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”

Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 23.

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