Tom DeMarco和Timothy Lister是大西洋系统协会(www.atlsysguild.com)的负责人。从1979起，他们就在一起演讲，写作和从事国际性的咨询工作，主要涉及软件工程、生产力、估算、管理学和公司文化。　　Tom DeMarco的职业生涯开始于贝尔实验室，他是结构化分析和设计的创始人之一，之后，他转向研究软件开发中的管理及其方法。他由于“对信息科学的重大贡献”成为1986年的J.-D. Warnier奖的得主。DeMarco总共已出版了六本书，其中项目管理小说《最后期限》（已由清华大学出版社出版）曾被评为亚马逊网上书店和巴诺书店的最佳畅销书。Timothy Lister的研究领域主要集中在对软件组织和项目的风险管理。Tim也为美国仲裁协会工作，负责解决软件争端。他还是美国国防部下设的软件程序经理网络的航空理事会员。

Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware. The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. They're not easy issues; but solve them, and you'll maximize your chances of success. "Peopleware has long been one of my two favorite books on software engineering. Its underlying strength is its base of immense real experience, much of it quantified. Many, many varied projects have been reflected on and distilled; but what we are given is not just lifeless distillate, but vivid examples from which we share the authors' inductions. Their premise is right: most software project problems are sociological, not technological. The insights on team jelling and work environment have changed my thinking and teaching. The third edition adds strength to strength." - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Kenan Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design "Peopleware is the one book that everyone who runs a software team needs to read and reread once a year. In the quarter century since the first edition appeared, it has become more important, not less, to think about the social and human issues in software develop'ment. This is the only way we're going to make more humane, productive workplaces. Buy it, read it, and keep a stock on hand in the office supply closet." -Joel Spolsky, Co-founder, Stack Overflow "When a book about a field as volatile as software design and use extends to a third edition, you can be sure that the authors write of deep principle, of the fundamental causes for what we readers experience, and not of the surface that everyone recognizes. And to bring people, actual human beings, into the mix! How excellent. How rare. The authors have made this third edition, with its additions, entirely terrific." -Lee Devin and Rob Austin, Co-authors of The Soul of Design and Artful Making For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today's development environments and challenges. For example, the book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadn't previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organization will find invaluable advice throughout the book.