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Virion. Krew (Legenda Miecza #1)

by Andrzej Ziemiański

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“Productivity has to be defined as benefit divided by cost. The benefit is observed dollar savings and revenue from the work performed, and cost is the total cost, including replacement of any workers used up by the effort.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

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“Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

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“The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

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“It’s possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That’s what happens when you drive out slack.”
― Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

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“On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.”
― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams

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