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Tom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books, including five novels, a collection of short stories and the rest business books. His most recent work is a seemingly jinxed love story, The One-Way Time Traveler.

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Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline. ...more

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	Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author), Timothy Lister 4.14 avg rating — 9,757 ratings — published 1987 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deadline 4.16 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — published 1997 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency 4.02 avg rating — 1,585 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects by Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author), Timothy Lister 3.97 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author), Peter Hruschka, Timothy R. Lister 3.96 avg rating — 307 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One-Way Time Traveler 4.07 avg rating — 121 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age 3.70 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Structured Analysis and System Specification by Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author), P.J. Plauger (Adapted by) 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Ruby Beam of Light (Dark World Chronicles #1) 3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tom DeMarco rated a book it was amazing Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Julian Fellowes is best known for Gosford Park and Downton Abbey, both of which take place pre-WWI or between the wars. Both were admirable enough, but Past Imperfect is his masterpiece. The book is in the form of a quest. It shifts back and forth ...more
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Tom DeMarco rated a book it was amazing The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Triffids is, to my mind, the finest apocalyptic novel ever written. That doesn't set the bar as high as you might think, since most apocalyptic novels are dumb shoot-em-ups or endless escape sagas, whose sole plot theme is Gee, look how awful anarchy ...more
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Tom DeMarco rated a book really liked it The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont begins with Mabel's husband dropping suddenly dead of natural causes. (He was just about my age, but let's not get hung up on that.) Mabel stares at his lifeless body and can't quite grasp what's happened and, while sh ...more
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I so looked forward to The Bee Sting, Paul Murray's fourth novel. I had loved Skippy Dies, his second, and found much to like about An Evening of Long Goodbyes, his first. And I forgave him the miss that was The Mark and the Void. But Bee Sting was a ...more
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Tom DeMarco rated a book it was amazing Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Imagine if you can a novel with half a dozen not very interesting characters who interact over the course of a single day in which nothing much happens, a novel with no tension — nothing you're turning pages to discover — and no resolution. That's mo ...more
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