Steve McConnell - Software project survival guide (1998)

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It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

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Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

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The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

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The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

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