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The Mythical Man-Month
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A book known to many software developers, based on Fred Brooks’s experiences on the System/360 operating system project.
A book based on Fred Brooks's experiences on the System/360 operating system project.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975, with subsequent editions in 1982 and 1995. Its central theme is that adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. This idea is known as Brooks's law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping. Brooks's observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360.