Overview:
Tom DeMarco being a prolific and influential consultant came up with a Project Management novel in the year 1997 called The Deadline. This book provided an overview to principles and outright absurdities affecting productivity of a software development team. It talks about six software products and the content has trademark wit of Tom DeMarco.
The plot of the book is about how a huge team of developers is divided into eighteen teams, which means three for each of the software products. Every team is different in size and uses different methods; they compete with each other to meet an impossible looking deadline Under different situations mentioned in the book, the author tested project management principles he gather over his lifetime. Some eye-opening approaches are shared with the readers in this witty and entertaining book.
Author:
Tom DeMarco
Published In:
1st June 1997