Before reading

As you know, I am currently writing about a novel that I’m reading, which is Deadline, a novel about project management, by Tom DeMarco, so in these posts we are going to discuss about the chapters of the book and at the end I am giving my truly opinion about the book, In the last chapters the book did not caught our attention, because it felt kind of confusing and slow, lets see if the novel has something special for us.

——–Reading the chapters——

Chapter 3

By now the book seems to start getting a little interesting, in this chapter of the book Mr T, who is the main character of the novel wakes up in a place that is similar to his home but it’s not home, as soon as he wakes up he saw Ms Hoolihan looking at him, he is mad and angry because he of course notices that he has been kidnaped, but Holihan seems not to pay too much attention to what Mr T feels, because time is running and Mr T needs to start doing the job for what he had been kidnapped. As soon as Holihan starts explainin what Mr T’s job would be she said to Mr T that if he does not what to do the job he is free to leave, but of course Holihan knows that someone like Mr T would never refuse such an oportunity like the one that is being given at the moment, they would pay twice the amount of money that Mr T did back in USA.

A lot of money an a job specially made for Mr T finally convinces Mr T to accept the job, basically Mr T would have a large amount of prepared engineers ready to listen to any order that Mr T decrets, all this engineers ready to work in 6 different projects selected by the NNL, which is the leader of Morovia, the place where Mr T was kidnapped to, seems like Mr T has no other choice than to start working because time is running, and he is the only one who can do the job.

Chapter 4

In this chapter Mr T it is now ready to start working, he has his own office, where Holihan receives him with an agenda for Mr T, an agenta that has gritten the escencial of good management that Mr T taught to Holihan which are:

• Get the right people
• Match them with the right jobs
• Keep them motivated
• Help their teams to jell and stay jelled

At the same time Mr T’s assistant is introduced to the story, a guy named Waldo, Waldo is the one who needs to inform Mr T about the happening in Morovia, everything needed about the people who are going to work with Mr T and everything about the projects that Mr T would be developing, eventhough not every project is software related Mr T seems willing to work, because of a serie of missunderstanding with one of the subordinates of the NNL, Mr T sets an appointment to met the NNL, because Mr T dislikes the way that the NNL thinks, and if they want with Mr T they need to know how to work under Mr T’s rules.

• Change is essential
• Avoiding risks is fatal
• People need to feel safe

Chapter 5

Mr T it is now ready to finally meet the NNL, and tell him that he is only doing this job at his own way not other one, as soon as Mr T arrives to the place where the NNL is supposed to be the guards stop him and ask him about the reason why is there, he explains that he is Mr T and as soon as he says his name the guards do something similar to a reverence, like to someone from the real family would be, this of course confuses Mr T, because an action like that to someone like him is not normal back in the USA, he enters the place and a lady whose english is perfect is waiting for him, she introduces herself as Miss Lane and explains to Mr T that the NNL is waiting for him, Mr T follows Miss Lane to a room where the NNL is.

Mr T gets to where the NNL is and as soon as Mr T looks at his face he realized that his face seems familiar and that probably they have meet before, but the NNL stops Mr T from asking, the Mr T remembers the reason why he set the appointment, that was because he wanted to say to the NNL that everything must be done under Mr T conditions, Mr T explains his reasons and the NNL accepts it, with no rejection, this because the NNL was tired of people telling him no, Mr T asked him how did he become the NNL, he said that he bought Morovia, thats how he became the NNL, with that he owned the land, the buildings, the resources, but the people, and he needed that people to create those systems.

The NNL decides to talk about an specific project, the one who involves developing an existing software that everyone already uses, Mr T asks about the decision to develope an existing software and how would that will make him gain more money, the NNL explains that everything related to money is not business for Mr T, only the project developement. This is something that Mr T does not like about the NNL.

This post Deadline

Allright this is something unexpected, as we talked in the previous post this novel was everything but interesting, until know, suddendly the novel turned into a story where the main character becomes the hero, the hero must fullfill some task before saving the world, and as the novel tells us, these tasks are osquested by someone who has a lot of power but is not capable of doing these tasks, we meet some secundary characters that would help our hero in these tasks and our hero, who was not convinced at the beggining is now the one who really wants to complete the job, it may not be a superheroes novel, but the way that these chapters developed makes us feel kinda like that.

Last time was boring, this time it really trapped me, wanted me to know more about the story and how our hero will make the things, avoiding the ones who are trying to stop him and preparing his army to the final battle, at times the chapters felt a little fantastic or nor real, but that can be forgiven because all the other things were just above right, a little of misteriousness, a little of crazyness and a little of overexagerating these things convined made these chapters a lot more interesting that the beggining, I still think that this novel is constantly teaching us some development topics but they are not that heavy, they can be easily handled so it does not matter that much, I wanted to get more about this novel and I got it, which makes me really happy. I will rate these 3 chapters an 8 out of 10, because I got what I wanted and not a 10 because I am hopping to get even more.