The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
 

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Frederick P. Brooks

The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon as... (read more)

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MUST READ for any programmer/computer science major/project manager. Brooks identified many fundamental rules for successful project management that many IT project managers continue to break. When I taught at University, I assigned as one of the course texts and it was immensely useful. In IT management, I have all my IT staff read it.

However, many of the fundamentals of project management apply to other disciplines, too (focused teams, exponential communication costs, adding more...

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