Deadline

Tom DeMarco ist Partner der Atlantic Systems Guild, einer Beratergruppe, die sich auf die komplexen Prozesse der Systementwicklung spezialisiert hat, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die menschliche Dimension. Seit den 70er-Jahren hat er zu Themen wie Management, Aufwandsschätzungen, Produktivität und Organisationkultur unterrichtet, Bücher verfasst und international beraten.

Preface vii

1 * Opportunity Knocking 1
2 * Standing Up to Kalbfuss 11
3 * Silikon Valejit 17
4 * The CD-ROM Plant 27
5 * NNL 36
6 * The World's Greatest Project Manager 47
7 * Taking On Staff 60
8 * The Eminent Dr. Rizzoli 71
9 * Ex-General Markov 84
10 * Abdul Jamid 95
11 * The Sinister Minister Belok 116
12 * The Numbers Man 133
13 * QuickerStill 151
14 * Morovia's First Programmer 163
15 * Think Fast! 181
16 * Planning for the Summer Games 200
17 * The Guru of Conflict Resolution 217
18 * Maestro Diyeniar 227

Interlude 239

19 * Part and Whole 247
20 * Standing on Ceremony 261
21 * Endgame Begins 276
22 * The Year's Hottest IPO 289
23 * Passing Through Riga on the Way Home 300

»The Deadline is dead on. It is a must-read, fun-read for anyone who has ever been, or will ever be, involved in a software project. Tom DeMarco has packaged the collective wisdom and hard-fought lessons learned of leading software prophets, gurus, and oracles into this tantalizing, insightful, and flat-out entertaining ›novel.‹« Will Tracz (ACM Software Engineering Notes)

». . . it's a technological tour de force. It covers a wide range of topics, from project estimating to metrics, from conflict resolution to dealing with ambiguous specifications. . . . the bullet points alone are worth the price of the book. . . . The Deadline is almost as funny as a book full of Dilbert cartoons, but it's far less cynical. More important, it contains some profound wisdom, and some practical, positive advice for improving the chances of meeting your next project deadline. I highly recommend it.« Ed Yourdon (American Programmer)

»We are left with a sense that opportunity only exists in the moment and that the real reason why we work is only to learn because learning is what fills every experience we have with meaning.« Michael Guajardo (Agile Alliance)

»Tom DeMarco once again gleefully peels away the onion layers of management issues with a humanity and insight that translate as easily into corporate general management as they do into the management of of software projects and teams. In The Deadline, he gives us a chuckle of a book, rich with both the absurdities of our daily work lives and with metric devices that can help us manage and perform better. It's the Function Points, stupid!« Bruce Taylor (Founding Publisher Imaging World Magazine)