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The Deadline:
A Novel About Project Management

by Tom DeMarco

ISBN: 978-0-932633-39-2  
©1997  320 pages   softcover  
$24.95 (plus shipping)

Subject(s): Software Project Management, Team Management

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Preface vii

1 * Opportunity Knocking 1
2 * Standing Up to Kalbfuss 11
3 * Silikon Valejit 17
4 * The CD-ROM Plant 27
5 * NNL 36
6 * The World's Greatest Project Manager 47
7 * Taking On Staff 60
8 * The Eminent Dr. Rizzoli 71
9 * Ex-General Markov 84
10 * Abdul Jamid 95
11 * The Sinister Minister Belok 116
12 * The Numbers Man 133
13 * QuickerStill 151
14 * Morovia's First Programmer 163
15 * Think Fast! 181
16 * Planning for the Summer Games 200
17 * The Guru of Conflict Resolution 217
18 * Maestro Diyeniar 227

Interlude 239

19 * Part and Whole 247
20 * Standing on Ceremony 261
21 * Endgame Begins 276
22 * The Year's Hottest IPO 289
23 * Passing Through Riga on the Way Home 300

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