The Peopleware Papers

These 77 essays offer powerful guidance on virtually every software development challenge in the "no-man's land" where technical and social issues blur, psychology meets cybernetics, and theory and practice intersect. Constantine's range is extraordinary: project management, group development, discipline vs. chaos, tools, models, methods, processes, personalities, usability, and beyond.

The Peopleware Papers includes two completely new sections: one on organizational culture, and another on making software objects more usable—including Constantine's hard-to-find, breakthrough essays on usage-centered design.

Contents

I. GROUP DEVELOPMENT.

• 1. Decisions, Decisions.
• 2. Consensus and Compromise.
• 3. Negotiating Consensus.
• 4. The Lowly and Exalted Scribe.
• 5. Official Space.
• 6. Irksome Interruptions.

• 7. Cowboy Coders.
• 8. Cowboy Homecoming.
• 9. Unity in Diversity.
• 10. Coding Cowboys and Software Sages.

• 11. Traditional Tactics.
• 12. Chaos Manners.
• 13. Open Architects.
• 14. Synchronized Swimming.
• 15. Team Politics.
• 16. Having It All.
• 17. Contrarion Conspiracy.

• 18. CASE and Cognition.
• 19. Modeling Matters.
• 20. Mirror, Mirror.
• 21. Methodical Madness.
• 22. Essentially Speaking.
• 23. Shapes to Come.
• 24. Software Objectives.
• 25. The Seams Are Showing.

• 26. The Benefits of Visibility.
• 27. Rewards and Reuse.
• 28. Superlearning.
• 29. Up the Waterfall.
• 30. In-Time Delivery.
• 31. Under Pressure.
• 32. Re: Architecture.
• 33. Quality by Increments.

• 34. Consistency and Conventions.
• 35. Complexity and Creeping Featurism.
• 36. Going to the Source.
• 37. Colorful Language.
• 38. Improving Intermediates.
• 39. Unusable You.
• 40. Editing Interfaces.
• 41. In Service.

• 42. Objects in Your Face.
• 43. Getting the Message.
• 44. Abstract Objects.
• 45. New Media.
• 46. Useful Cases.
• 47. Efficient Objects.
• 48. Coherent Objects.

• 49. Arrogant Programming.
• 50. Interfaces Diversified.
• 51. Wizard Widgets.
• 52. Future Faces.

• 53. Culture Change.
• 54. Change Agents.
• 55. Embedded with the Best.
• 56. Columns from an Italian Restaurant.
• 57. Mentored Out.
• 58. In Training.
• 59. Gifted Programmers.
• 60. Industry Icons.
• 61. Impresario.

• Appendix: Registered Peopleware.
• References.
• Index.