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Tom DeMarco
8 quotes
“You can't control what you can't measure”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Controlling Software Projects, Management Measurement & Estimation, (1982), p. 3.
“The business of software building isn't really high-tech at all. It's most of all a business of talking to each other and writing things down. Those who were making major contributions to the field were more likely to be its best communicators than its best technicians.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age, (1995), p. 218.
“It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Deadline (1997), p. 284.
“A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Deadline (1997).
“People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Tom DeMarco (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source