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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Peopleware: Productive Projects and TeamsDewey Decimal Number: 658.314 EAN: 9780932633057 Format: Import ISBN: 0932633056 Label: Dorset House Manufacturer: Dorset House Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 1987 Publisher: Dorset House Studio: Dorset House Related Items:
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![]() Rating: - AFThis book is not new, but still has a lot of good ideas and vision inside. Highly recommended! Rating: - Important Read For Contrarian ReasonsMuch of this book is spent explaining what should be obvious to the best managers, but which corporate culture and priorities tend to work against. In general, the book looks more at typical mistakes than at recipes for success. At the same time, the advice is solid and they often provide data to back up their assertions. If I was a manager at a typical and mediocre corporation, I would not recommend this book too much-- it is hell fighting against corporate culture. However if you ... Read More Rating: - A must for project managersIt's hard to find at Amazon a book rated with deserved 5-stars. Even harder if it's got a good review by Joel Spolsky. Peopleware is one of them.Simple language, short chapters with plain ideas inside and a touch of psychology, altogether produces a confusing feeling. It seems as if the book tells you nothing you didn't already know but there is where its power lies: you end up thinking that you could have written this book. I've got the second edition which is splitted in six parts. The ... Read More Rating: - Relevant 20 years laterI was surprised at how relevant this book still is more than 20 years after its initial publication. Depressingly, it seems the authors' suggestions have not been followed by many employers. I recently changed jobs and am in a cubicle for the first time. I have been struggling to think in my cubicle, and this book confirms my suspicion that it is my work space and not my brain that is causing the problem. Even when I am not being interrupted, I am always slightly on edge wondering when I will be interrupted. ... Read More Rating: - People MatterGreat book on managing people and their space in a technical environment. A must for technical managers.
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