Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Mythical Man Month

The classic book "The Mythical Man Month" is published by Fred Brooks in 1975. Brooks reflects on the mistakes made and lessons learned while working as a project manager at IBM. The book cites the fallacy in the attempt to add more workers to a project that is falling behind schedule. His observation, known as Brooks' Law, is simple: adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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