Project Management, Cutter Seminar Boston 2007
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A Novel about Project Management
Author:
Demarco, Tom
Isbn 13:
9780932633392
ISBN: 0932633390
Pub Date:
Jun 1, 1997
Publisher:
Dorset House Publishing
Shipping Weight: 1.66 pounds
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A project management novel that vividly illustrates the principles - and the outright absurdities - that affect the productivity of a software development team. With his trademark wit set free in the novel format, DeMarco centers the plot around the development of six software products. Mr. Tompkins, a manager downsized from a giant telecommunications company, divides the huge staff of developers at his disposal into eighteen teams - three for each of the software products. The teams are different sizes and use different methods, and they compete against each other and against an impossible deadline. With these teams - and with the help of numerous fictionalized consultants who come to his aid - Tompkins tests the project management principles he has gathered over a lifetime. Each chapter closes with journal entries that form the core of the eye-opening approaches to management illustrated in this entertaining novel.
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