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Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Tom DeMarco (Author), Peter Hruschka (Author), Tim Lister (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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"Another masterpiece from the folks who brought you Peopleware. Anyone who has survived a software project or two will surely recognize many of these patterns and will be able to learn from most of them. Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies is a real joy." --Joel Spolsky, author of Joel on Software

"Who else but these particular authors could mine 150 years of software team experience to capture memorable names for oft-encountered situations? I suspect you will start using these phrases in your work--I already have." --Alistair Cockburn, author of Agile Software Development

"utterly delightful collection of essays about 86 'project patterns' . . . These 'patterns' are grimly familiar to anyone who has worked in project-related organizations; and unfortunately, they can be found in small companies as well as large ones. Fortunately, some of the patterns ('Rattle Yer Dags' and 'Nanny,' for example) are good ones, and should be encouraged. Sadly, though, far too many of them ('Dead Fish,' 'Project-Speak') are not only depressingly familiar, but astonishingly destructive to productivity, quality, and the morale of the project team. . . . I really love this book, not the least because each pattern can be read and understood in a moment or two, since they take only 2-3 pages to explain. . . . If Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies gets the attention it deserves, Scott Adams may have to return to Corporate America and get an honest job as a project manager." --Ed Yourdon, author of Death March

About the Author

If your organization builds systems of any kind, chances are that some of the methods and approaches that it uses came originally from the Atlantic Systems Guild. Collectively, the authors have published nearly twenty previous books, including Peopleware, Mastering the Requirements Process, The Deadline, Essential Systems Analysis, Waltzing With Bears, and Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DY3KQHM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (July 15, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 32187 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 331 pages
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    Suzanne Robertson is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Suzanne is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley 2012), several other books and many articles about the socio-technical aspects of requirements and business analysis. Current work focuses on the integration of stakeholders, goals and scope and the use of iterative requirements techniques. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for discovering, understanding and communicating requirements and for specifying requirements. She was the founding editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software magazine.

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    James Robertson is a problem solver, consultant, teacher, photographer, author and practitioner of systems and software solutions. He is co-author of seven books and the Volere approach to requirements engineering. He is a principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a think tank known for its innovative approach to systems engineering.

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    Peter Hruschka, based in Aachen, Germany, specializes in requirements and design of embedded real-time systems. He is the co-developer of the REQ42-template for agile requirements engineers and the ARC42 template for system architecture documentation. In one of his earlier lives, he pioneered modeling tools for structured and object-oriented methods. He has coauthored half-a-dozen books on methods and tools.

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    Steve McMenamin was a Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild from its founding in 1983 until his death in 2019. He had a parallel career as a manager at Edison International, Crossgain, and later at Hawaii Electric. Over his lifetime he managed more than a thousand people, and was known for taking a continuing and compulsive interest in the advancement of their careers.

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    Tom DeMarco is the author of sixteen published books, including five novels, a collection of short stories, and the rest books about systems technology and the sociology of the workplace.

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