IntroductionThe Other Side of Software

This book is about the other side of computer software, the side facing outward. This face of computing touches and is touched by people—technology people, like you and me, and ordinary people, like you and me. The essays here compiled explore the many diverse aspects of peopleware—that interface between software and its developers and between software and its users.

My editors, both at the magazines in which this material originally appeared and at Prentice Hall, have allowed me to range widely in my explorations. The enormous breadth of the topic of peopleware has enabled me to write about almost anything I desired: from organizational culture and project organization, coding chaos and coding discipline, ...

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