Death March

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1. jdouganAug 2024
   Death March by Ed Yourdon.
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2. jdouganJul 2024
   I also reread MMM from time to time. Also Peopleware and Yourdon's Death March.
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3. jdouganMay 2023
   Death March, 2nd Ed. - Ed Yourdon

   Peopleware, 2nd Ed, - Lister and DeMarco

   Art of the Meta-Object Protocol

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4. jdouganDec 2022
   "Death March", by Ed Yourdon. Most of the reccommended books In this thread are about trying to keep a project in a good place. This book is about what to do when it has already gone wrong. You can make a not terrible argument that much of the industry has gone to an all-death-march-all-the-time model. This book can help.
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5. mac3nApr 2021
   "Death March", Yourdon. Doomed software projects - how to recognize and deal with them, and sometimes use them to your advantage.

   "Software Craftsmanship", McBreen. Take pride in your work.

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6. webmavenJul 2020
   So many good book recommendations here, but no one has mentioned Tom DeMarco's The Deadline: https://books.google.com/books?id=5_kJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=fron...

   In style and content, it's a bit like an older version of "The Phoenix Project" that was focused on delivering packaged software, and mostly oriented around a "stocks and flows" model of the development process.

   The framing narrative is much more amusing, though.

   Also worth reading Edward Yourdon's Death March:

   https://books.google.com/books?id=FdAZUX9H_gAC&printsec=fron...

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