
A software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. in New York City, Tim Lister spends his time consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a coauthor with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior; coauthor with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, the Jolt Award winner as General Computing Book of the Year 2003–2004; and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, available in fourteen languages. Tim is a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council, the IEEE, and the ACM. He has served for twenty-six years as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.