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Since it was required for a somewhat lame class, I assumed it was a lame book.

The software engineering lectures in my CS degree were so amazingly lame that in one of them the lecturer bored himself so badly that he couldn't continue. I think that people who've never seen bad management technique often won't suspect its existence, so it's very difficult to teach them good management technique.

This was a couple of years before Debugging The Development Process came out (but after The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, so there was no excuse for lame books).

Peter