The third edition has six new chapters and numerous edits to the main text, so that the book is now better suited to modern development environments and contemporary problems.
Few books about computers have had such a notable impact on software development management as The Human Factor. The unique insight of this book, which has maintained its position on the bestseller list for many years: the most difficult problems of software development are not technological, but social. These human problems are not easy to solve, but by solving them, you increase your chances of success to an upper limit.
The third edition has six new chapters and numerous edits to the main text, so that the book is now better suited to modern development environments and contemporary problems. In particular, it discusses leadership pathologies not previously thought of as pathologies, the evolving culture of meetings, and also the growing realization that some of our tools serve as anchors rather than engines. Anyone who needs to manage a software development project or an entire organization of this kind will find plenty of valuable advice in the pages of this book.