Peopleware
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- Author: Tom DeMarco and Timothy R. Lister
- ASIN: B003I84OIU
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003I84OIU
- Kindle link
Highlights
Parkinson’s Law almost certainly doesn’t apply to your people. — location: 383
Hell yeah.
Your marketplace, your product consumers, your clients, and your upper management are never going to make the case for high quality. Extraordinary quality doesn’t make good short-term economic sense. When team members develop a cult of quality, they always turn out something that’s better than what their market is asking for. They can do this, but only when protected from short-term economics. In the long run, this always pays off. People get high on quality and out-do themselves to protect it. — location: 2275
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