Timothy Lister

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author book non-fiction writer software consultant software engineer

Timothy Lister is a software engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of the influential book "Peopleware," which focuses on the human and organizational aspects of software development.

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Label	Occurrences
Timothy Lister canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author ⓘ book ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ software consultant ⓘ software engineer ⓘ
author	Timothy Lister NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom DeMarco NERFINISHED ⓘ
coAuthorOf	"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" NERFINISHED ⓘ
coAuthorWith	Tom DeMarco NERFINISHED ⓘ
field	organizational behavior in software development ⓘ software engineering ⓘ software project management ⓘ
focusesOn	human aspects of software development ⓘ organizational aspects of software development ⓘ software project management practices ⓘ team productivity in software projects ⓘ
genre	management ⓘ management literature ⓘ software engineering ⓘ software engineering literature ⓘ
hasImpactOn	agile and modern software management thinking ⓘ software development workplace design ⓘ
hasRole	consultant to software organizations ⓘ speaker on software project management ⓘ
hasWrittenAbout	office environment and productivity ⓘ organizational culture in technology companies ⓘ software project risk ⓘ team management in software projects ⓘ
influenced	software project management practices ⓘ thinking about workplace environment in software development ⓘ
knownFor	co-authoring the book "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
mainSubject	human factors in software development ⓘ software project management ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableIdea	emphasis on team dynamics in software productivity ⓘ importance of quiet, interruption-free workspaces for developers ⓘ view of software development as a human, not purely technical, activity ⓘ
notableWork	"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ consultant ⓘ software engineer ⓘ
subjectOf	discussions in software engineering communities ⓘ
workLocation	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Timothy Lister
Description of subject: Timothy Lister is a software engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of the influential book "Peopleware," which focuses on the human and organizational aspects of software development.

Referenced by (1)

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Lister → hasNotableBearer → Timothy Lister ⓘ