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Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software, The
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Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software, The

by Larry L. Constantine
April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 5m
English
Pearson
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Part III. Work Organization

Introduction

Although I started out in the computer field armed with a management degree from M.I.T., I was initially more interested in the technical side of programming. It was through my work on family systems that I first became seriously involved in issues of teamwork organization and organization development. Although my career in computers and software spans more than thirty years, I took a detour of some dozen years in the middle. I was lucky then to be an applied systems theorist moving into the family field at a time when family sociology and family therapy were moving toward systems theory (Whitchurch and Constantine 1992). Marriage and family studies, sociology, and social psychology had all begun to understand ...

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