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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1068
EAN: 9780201835953
ISBN: 0201835959
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 12, 1995
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 4629
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No book on software project management has been so influential and so timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (best known as the 'father of the IBM System 360') revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.
Amazon.com Review:
The classic book on the human elements of softwareengineering. Software tools and development environments may havechanged in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but thepeculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and thenature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon.If youwrite code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon aspossible -- from Amazon.com Books, your library, or anyone else. You(and/or your colleagues) will be forever grateful. Very HighestRecommendation.
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Rating:  - Software Development
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This idea is known as Brooks's law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping. The work was first published in 1975, and republished as an anniversary edition in 1995 (ISBN 0-201-83595-9) with the essay "No Silver Bullet" and commentary by the author.
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Rating: - Excellent & Highly Recommended Book
I have read this book twice now. Once in college and once again now 5 years later. While I did not get much out of it 5 years ago,now that I have been in the industry a few years, it is a VERY good re-read.
Rating: - Required Reading For Anyone Serious About Software Development
30 Years later this book is still highly relevent.If your project is in trouble, don't add bodies!
Rating: - seminal classic
Fred Brooks, the author, is the individual primarily responsible for the IBM System/360, arguably the most successful computer software system built to this point.He is also primarily responsible for the IBM OS/360, which was not as successful.You may find that his frank and honest assessment of why one was successful and one was not provides a map of a right way to develop software and an alert system for what can go wrong.Because of this and the distilled thought and experience present in the ... Read More
Rating:  - A insightful book about software project development
I have been a software project manager for many years. One of the biggest problem that I encountered was what the author called as "Second System Effect". Some times, architects were unable to discipline himself to avoid over-designing systems in the second project. Their goals were to build perfect systems that would streamline all processes without considering the costs and patience of business groups. To convince others that they were right, they could come up with various reasons that sounded very ... Read More
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