Few books about computers have had as significant an impact on software development management as Human Factors. The unique insight of this book, which remained on the bestseller list for many years: the most difficult problems in software development are not technological, but social in nature. These human problems are not easy to solve, but by solving them, you will increase your chances of success to the upper limit. The third edition adds six new chapters and numerous changes to the main text, so that the book is now better suited to modern development environments and modern problems. In particular, it discusses pathologies of leadership that were not previously considered pathologies, the evolving culture of meetings, and the growing understanding that some of our tools serve as anchors rather than drivers. Anyone who needs to manage a software development project or an entire organization of this kind will find a lot of valuable advice in the pages of this book.