"Retrospectives on Peopleware" was a panel at the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), featuring DeMarco, timothy-lister, fred-brooks, edward-yourdon, Linda Rising, and barry-boehm, moderated by Steven Fraser. The panel reflected on the two-decade impact of peopleware on the software engineering field.
The event is significant as a rare occasion when DeMarco and timothy-lister appeared alongside their intellectual predecessors and contemporaries — fred-brooks (whose Mythical Man-Month was the earlier organizational critique), edward-yourdon (DeMarco's structured methods mentor), and barry-boehm (the plan-driven tradition's champion) — to assess what peopleware had and had not achieved. This retrospective foreshadowed DeMarco's more radical self-critique in software-engineering-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-and-gone two years later.