Peopleware: Productive Projects

Why this matters here

Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister’s Peopleware insist that productive teams need human conditions—including uncommitted capacity and freedom from constant interruption—not only tighter process. How Serious Systems Learn renames that margin as slack: the technical condition that makes pause, interruption, and reversal possible without collapse. Their management claim is about people and environment; the book’s extension is interruptibility as the moral expression of that capacity.