The Deadline - A Novel About Project Management torrent

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco
Audiobook : MP3/128Kbps : English

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Publisher's Summary:

From prolific and influential consultant and author Tom DeMarco comes 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.

(C)1997 Tom DeMarco; (P)1997 Dorset House Publishing Co., Inc.