60 Quotes by Tom DeMarco

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.