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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco
Timothy Lister
£20.99
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This is an interesting book, with much the same feel as Mythical Man Month, but a focus more on managing the team.
Both books promote the theory that programmers vary vastly in productivity, and that you want to hire the good ones!
This book focusses more on the productivity of teams, suggesting that it isn't so much the individual productivity that matters but that of the group.
PracticalWeb is still a new venture for me; so far I'm really enjoying working more independently.
I find the relationship between client and contractor lends itself better to developing complex systems than that of employee/employer.
I haven't entirely figured out why yet.
One potential downside is trying to do everything yourself, legal, accounting, invoicing, purchasing etc...
What I have found is that there are many helpful resources out there and by getting help where I can - I am better able to focus on my core work.
