Further Reading
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little Brown, 1981. This book describes how computer hardware developers signed up to work on Data General's Eagle computer. It lays out the signing-up process in detail and illustrates the motivational benefit of the process—Eagle's developers worked practically 24 hours a day throughout the project. It is also an object lesson in the risks associated with signing up: much of the development team quit the company when the project was finished.
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