September 5th, 2007
Back in May, I participated in a panel session at an ICSE conference in Minneapolis — before the bridge fell down, and before its airport men’s room became so notorious — in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary publication of Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. My report on that panel session can be found here, on my blog; but my fellow panelists and I also decided to submit the material to IEEE Software for “official” publication.
I’m delighted to report that the article/report has now been published, in the September/October issue of the magazine, with the title “Celebrating Peopleware’s 20th Anniversary.” If you’re an IEEE member, you may have noticed the article, and/or received an e-mail notification of its publication; otherwise, you can find it here on the Internet. Alas, while my informal blog-version of the panel session is free, the official IEEE version will cost you $19. If it’s any consolation, neither my fellow co-panelists nor I receive a penny of this fee; and hopefully it will help keep a few engineers and programmers off the unemployment line a little while longer…
