TechMartin Fowlerabout 2 months ago
Bliki: Mythical Man Month
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Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month in 1975 after managing IBM's System/360 development. Brooks's law states adding manpower to a late software project makes it later because communication paths grow exponentially. The book's most enduring lesson is conceptual integrity: a system should reflect one set of design ideas.
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