Constantine on Peopleware presents over thirty essays and articles. Drawing on his diverse experiences as an educator, family therapist, and systems expert, Larry Constantine covers a broad range of issues, including quality and productivity, teamwork, group dynamics, personality and programming, project management and organizational issues, interface design and human-machine interaction, cognition, psychology, and thought processes.
Peopleware is a crossroads on a frontier where different worlds such as management, organization development, personality, modeling, tools, methods, process, and human-computer interaction. This book will help readers to explore interesting ideas, face challenges, and examine the in's and out's of software and applications development.
Part 1 Group Development
Part 2 Cowboys and Cowgirls
Part 3 Work Organization
Part 4 Tools and Methods
Part 5 Process Improvements
Part 6 Software Usability
Part 7 Brave New Software