[Techtalk] Improving Information Technology Projects.

[Mary]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005, Sue Stones wrote:
> Mary wrote:
> 
> >I learned a lot of interesting things about people's responsiveness
> >to deadlines, team organisation and a few other things from Tom
> >DeMarco's "The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management". It's not
> >a great read as a novel, but it's reasonable as an overview of some
> >more traditional theories about managing large software projects.
> >
> I haven't managed to track this down, where did you get it from?  A
> novel may be more interesting than my text book.

A friend lent it to me. It's a bit hard for me to help given that I
don't know whether you're willing to spend money or not (and don't own a
copy myself). However, Powells [1], Amazon [2], Barnes and Noble [3] all
have in-print copies. I can't find an Australian online retailer with
copies, although Dymocks and Angus and Robertson both have copies of
some of his other books. Likewise, I checked the USyd, UNSW and CSU
libraries and none of them have copies (although all of them have copies
of his non-fiction), so I don't think I can help more than that.

Something a bit more well known you could look at is "The Mythical Man
Month" by Frederick Brooks. It's not in novel form though.

-Mary

[1] http://www.powells.com/biblio/4-0932633390-0
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932633390/102-2818297-4686523
[3] http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0932633390