Tag archive for “Management”

“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”

— Tom DeMarco

“People under time pressure don’t think faster.”

— Tom Lister

“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”

— Dave Platt

“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Managing is about systems and processes and resources; leading is about achievement and vision.”

— Peter McDougall

“You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

— Tom DeMarco

“If you think your management doesn’t know what it’s doing or that your organization turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.”

— Ed Yourdon, Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer

“Team development is like a birthday cake. Everybody gets a piece.”

— Assaad Chalhoub

“Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning.”

— Joel Spolsky