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Book on software project management and engineering by Frederick Brooks, first published in 1975 as a collection of essays on the challenges of large software projects.
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy· 4 Nov
Casado describes The Mythical Man-Month as showing that adding engineers to software projects slows them, a point he attributes to Fred Brooks in the seventies.The Pragmatic Engineer· 29 Oct
Titus Winters calls the surgical team chapter of The Mythical Man-Month his least favorite, because it assumes only one project.Inspired with Alexa von Tobel· 22 Apr
Dan Lorenc says the industry-standard wisdom for running engineering teams over the last 20 years comes from The Mythical Man-Month, a book written back in the eighties.A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders· 8 Apr 2024
Dylan argues that the best product is not just a function of resources, since more people can slow a project down, as The Mythical Man-Month describes.