Addison-Wesley is a major American educational and technical publisher that has played a peripheral but notable role in the DeMarco publishing history. It published the third edition of peopleware (2013) after dorset-house-publishing ceased operations, absorbed portions of the Yourdon Press backlist, and has been the publisher for several works adjacent to the DeMarco intellectual world.
Role in the DeMarco bibliography
Addison-Wesley's connection to DeMarco is primarily through the 2013 third edition of peopleware, which moved to Addison-Wesley's professional imprint after Dorset House closed. The transition marked the final institutional shift in Peopleware's publishing history: from Dorset House's small-press specialist context to a large commercial publisher's software management list.
Addison-Wesley also absorbed portions of yourdon-inc's Yourdon Press backlist during the consolidation of technical publishing in the 1990s, giving it indirect custody of some of the structured-methods-era texts that shaped DeMarco's early career context.
Broader context
As one of the dominant publishers in computing and software engineering, Addison-Wesley published works adjacent to DeMarco's intellectual world — including titles by fred-brooks (The Mythical Man-Month was republished by Addison-Wesley) and numerous Agile movement texts. Its position as the publisher of record for the third edition of peopleware places it at the end of the peopleware-breakthrough-era's publishing arc rather than at its center.