“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.
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Famous Tom DeMarco Quotes
“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.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 18.
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.
