Evidence

Format Book / Offline paper

"Peopleware reports large performance differences between software organizations, with its Coding War Games finding the best of 92 organizations worked 11.1 times faster than the worst."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS TOUCHGRASS - Root

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Office employees in Gloria Mark’s study averaged about eleven minutes on a project before interruption or switching to another task."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS TOUCHGRASS - Root

Source title Smarter Than You Think

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"The responses to López’s interrogatory varied greatly in quality, and their accompanying maps were often elementary representations or rough sketches."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Tomás López Revisited

Source title Las Lagunas de Ruidera en las Relaciones Geográficas de Tomás López

Source authors Bernardo Sevillano Martín

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"López undertook an enormous effort to gather, unify and synthesize the questionnaire material while archiving the replies for a possible geographical dictionary."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Tomás López Revisited

Source title El método cartográfico de Tomás López. El interrogatorio y los mapas de España

Source authors Antonio López Gómez

Source year 1996

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"López’s geographical atlas contained substantial positional inaccuracies that made it unreliable for precise military route-finding during the Peninsular War."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Tomás López Revisited

Source title Tomas Lopez's Geographic Atlas of Spain in the Peninsular War: A methodology for determining errors

Source authors José Carlos de San Antonio Gómez; Cristina Velilla Lucini; Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Tracy Chou argues that code is incomprehensible or hidden to most people, making technical claims of merit harder for outsiders to challenge"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Code Is Law

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"DeMarco and Lister argue that systems developers self-select into rational thought and may consequently rely on logic as their main device for resolving disputes"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Code Is Law

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Large-scale software development has persistent coordination problems involving communication, capacity and cooperation"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Code Is Law

Source title Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development - Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors

Source authors Christopher Poile; Andrew Begel; Nachiappan Nagappan; Lucas Layman

Source year 2009

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"A field study found professional developers spent about 58 percent of measured time on program-comprehension activities"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Code Is Law

Source title Measuring Program Comprehension - A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals

Source authors Xin Xia; Lingfeng Bao; David Lo; Zhenchang Xing; Ahmed E. Hassan; Shanping Li

Source year 2018

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Change impact analysis examines the downstream effects of software changes and can reduce maintenance cost and software-failure risk"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Code Is Law

Source title Change Impact Analysis - A Systematic Mapping Study

Source authors Maria Kretsou; Elvira-Maria Arvanitou; Apostolos Ampatzoglou; Ignatios Deligiannis; Vassilis C. Gerogiannis

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high