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The mythical man-month (The Mythical Man-Month)

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This book was written by Frederick Brooks and was published for the first time. 1975 Since then, it has become a classic of the genre. Is it worth reading almost forty years after publication? Definitely worth it, and here's why The book is about managing software projects and is based on Brooks’ experience at IBM, where he was involved in managing an OS project.360 (At the time when I was beginning to get acquainted with computers from this project, only mice with a round PS plug remained from this project.2) Software project management since Brooks has suffered from similar problems and it is useful to read about them in advance to try to get around them.

  • The book was stolen for quotes and memes, for example. "Nine women don't have a baby in a month." “If the project doesn’t meet the deadline, adding labor will delay it even further.”
  • "Law of the second system: A programmer who develops his second system tends to add all the features he could not add to his first system.
  • Mythical Man-Month (book-titled expression on labour assessment)
  • No silver bullet. (The idea that there is no universal pill for everything) In general, reading this book must have for all technical managers, starting with the team leader and above. Not only because it’s cool, but because references and references to this book are found in almost every other IT project/process/product management literature.

The book is written in good language and reads very pleasantly.

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