Tim Lister has 30 years of professional software development experience and is co-author, with Tom DeMarco, of the immensely popular course sequences, Software Risk Management, Achieving Best in Class: Leading, Managing and Coaching the Modern Software Organization, and Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation. Tim Lister and Tom DeMarco are also co-authors of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd ed. (Dorset House, 1999). This book has been a book club selection of the Library of Computer and Information Sciences, and has been translated into seven languages. Tim Lister and Tom DeMarco are also co-editors of Software State-of -the-Art: Selected Papers, a collection of 31 of the best papers on software published in the 1980’s (Dorset House, 1990). The two partners have also produced a video entitled Productive Teams, also available through Dorset House.

Tim Lister lives in Manhattan. He holds an A.B. from Brown University, and is a member of the I.E.E.E. and the A.C.M.