

“The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.”
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“Productivity has to be defined as benefit divided by cost. The benefit is observed dollar savings and revenue from the work performed, and cost is the total cost, including replacement of any workers used up by the effort.”
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

“On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.”
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

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

“we don’t work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn’t get done on time.”
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
― Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
Piotr’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Piotr’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Piotr
Lists liked by Piotr