The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

1975 • 322 pages

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Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how computer languages and tools will evolve, and philosophical speculation. Unlike most other books about computing, Brooks' work has been remarkably enduring, remaining in print for at least four decades. The book is most famous for its statement of Brooks' Law: "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later".

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Depsite the rave reviews, this book has aged quite a bit - although I'm sure it must have been groundbreaking at the time of its original publication.

March 26, 2016

i read the important parts, at least
main takeaway: there's such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen in software dev

January 29, 2023
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