Tom Demarco

Name: Tom DeMarco

Born: August 20, 1940, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA

American author, teacher, software engineer and speaker on software engineering topics.
Early creator of structured analysis in the 1980s.
Worked on the ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System while employed with Bell Labs, which were installed in telephone offices all over the world.
Key interests are project management, change facilitation, and litigation of software-intensive contracts.
Member of the ACM.
Fellow and senior consultant of the Cutter Consortium.

Significant publications

Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? (2009).
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (2008).
Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (2003).
Slack, Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency (2001).
The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management (1997).
Structured Analysis and System Specification (1979).

Stevens Award for “contribution to the methods of software development” (1999).
Recipient of the Warnier Prize for “lifetime contribution to the field of computing” (1986).
Winner of the Jean-Dominique Warnier Prize for “lifetime contribution to the information sciences.
Fellow of the IEEE.

“It’s not what you don’t know that kills you, but what you know that isn’t so.”