by Tom DeMarco
DeMarco argues software's major problems are sociological, not technical - broken teams, noisy offices, and bad management. Productivity depends on quiet space, autonomy, and conditions for flow.
In this collection, Peopleware references 2 other books and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The Mythical Man-Month and Flow.
It’s picked up by About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change.
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DeMarco directly engages with Brooks' Mythical Man-Month, extending its arguments about team size and communication overhead
Peopleware 3rd edition (2013) references Csikszentmihalyi's flow states for productive work
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The book references DeMarco and Lister's Peopleware when discussing how organisational structures and team dynamics affect the quality of interaction design outcomes
Cited in
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Designby Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel
Both address the human factors of software development; Fournier extends DeMarco and Lister's insights on team dynamics to the modern tech management career path
Cited in
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Changeby Camille Fournier
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