60 Quotes by Tom DeMarco

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

You can't control what you can't measure

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

You can’t control what you can’t measure.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That’s what management is all about.