Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.
You can't control what you can't measure - Tom Demarco
You can't control what you can't measure
- Tom Demarco
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about. - Tom Demarco
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment. - Tom Demarco
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it. - Tom Demarco
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work. - Tom Demarco
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it. - Tom Demarco
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. - Tom Demarco
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. - Tom Demarco
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day. - Tom Demarco
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
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