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Person

Timothy Lister

Consultants and authors on software risk, estimation, and people problems in technology projects.

Why this matters

DeMarco and Lister name fear-driven management—when uncertainty produces control theater not learning.

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Works

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the

DeMarco, Tom, and Timothy Lister. *Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency*. New York: Broadway Books, 2016.

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Living in Sediment

How Structures Outlive Their Reasons

We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.