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Tom DeMarco · 1987 · 245 pages

4 people have this book on the record — 2 of 4 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Philip O'Toole loved it
But once you start to do so, it's a great book and probably the best one there is on programming management.

on philipotoole.com · 25 Nov 2016

Dan Luu mixed on it affiliate
This book agrees with my biases and I'd love for this book to be right, but the meta evidence makes me want to re-read this with a critical eye and look up primary sources.

on danluu.com · 1 Oct 2016

Jeff Atwood recommends it
If you have any legitimate aspirations to be a "Team Leader" in practice instead of in name only, you need to pick up a copy of this book.

on blog.codinghorror.com · 2 Feb 2004

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.