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It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.
— Tom DeMarco
A policy of "Quality - If Time Permits" will assure that no quality at all sneaks into the product. Hewlett-Packard
— Tom DeMarco
Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone.
— Tom DeMarco
You can't control what you can't measure
— Tom DeMarco
The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.
— Tom DeMarco
IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)
— Tom DeMarco
Whether you call it a "team" or an "ensemble" or a "harmonious work group" is not what matters;
— Tom DeMarco
When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.
— Tom DeMarco
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
— Tom DeMarco
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
— Tom DeMarco
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
— Tom DeMarco
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
— Tom DeMarco