Tim Lister

Atlantic Systems Guild

Tim Lister A principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. based in New York City, Tim Lister divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior. He is co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, the Jolt Award winner as General Computing Book of the Year for 2003-2004, and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, now available in fourteen languages.

Tim has over 35 years of professional software development experience. He is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council, the IEEE, and the ACM. He is in his twenty-third year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.

Past Papers/Presentations

• W1: Risk Workshop: Project Code Name “Blind Faith” -

  2010 Workshop, Tim Lister, Paper, Slides, Notes, Video.

• Project Patterns: From Adrenaline Junkies to Template Zombies -

  2010 Keynote Speaker, Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild