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Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
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Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

by Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Pattern Index

1 Adrenaline Junkies 6

39 Atlas 109

73 Babel 200

54 Ben 148

44 The Blue Zone 122

70 Brownie in Motion 192

64 Children of Lake Wobegon 172

36 Cider House Rules 101

65 Co-Education 176

58 Cool Hand Luke 157

27 Counterfeit Urgency 77

Interlude: The Cutting Room Floor 190

16 Dashboards 45

53 Data Qualty 146

3 Dead Fish 12

50 The Empty Chair 138

17 Endless Huddle 49

40 Everyone Wears Clothes for a Reason 112

8 Eye Contact 25

14 Face Time 40

34 False Quality Gates 95

52 Feature Soup 143

19 Film Critics 55

60 Food++ 161

75 Fridge Door 204

4 Happy Clappy Meetings 14

62 Hidden Beauty 166

63 I Don’t Know 169

15 I Gave You a Chisel. Why Aren’t You Michelangelo? 43

43 It’s Always the Goddamned Interfaces 120

49 Journalists 136

85 Leakage

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ISBN: 9780133492286