The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. is one of those books that you’ll find on a lot of software people’s lists. First published in 1975, the book has become a timeless record of how to manage software project teams.
The book is written based on Brooks’ experiences with large project teams for IBM working on systems that pre-date this author’s birth. While the lessons are written for software teams, they’re not necessarily about software. In fact, most of this book is focused on people and project management.
The Mythical Man-Month explains why “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” It describes project tracking and the effect of small slips in your project schedule, and the importance of documentation. You can just as easily see this on the bookshelf of an M.B.A. as an engineer.
Part of what’s so interesting about this book is that it helps you gain perspective on the history of softwar...
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