Marlon Cabrera > Marlon's Quotes

“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“Whether you call it a “team” or an “ensemble” or a “harmonious work group” is not what matters; what matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

“In 21 projects studied that same year, estimates were prepared by a third party, typically a systems analyst. The developers in these cases substantially outperformed the projects in which estimating was done by a programmer and/or a supervisor”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams