Title: He quoted Parkinson's law
Review: From the book: "Managers know that software development follows Parkinson's Law: Work will expand to fill the time alloted to it." This is such an outdated idea and method for managers to deal with software engineers the rest of the book was tainted for me by his obvious distain for software engineers. Only the worst kind of un-trusting manager would assume that his engineers will naturally drag their feet if the schedule allows it.Another example of his contempt for programmers: "All of the analysis and careful thinking done by high-powered and high-priced executives is made moot by the unilateral cherry picking of a programmer following his own muse or defending his turf."Sorry but the white button down shirt wearing, schedule dictating, programmer dis-trusting manager has no place in software development nor writing books telling me how to manage my software engineers.
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