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The Mythical Man-Month

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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.

The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1975 software engineering book by Fred Brooks The Mythical Man-Month First edition Author Fred Brooks Language English Subject Software project management Publisher Addison-Wesley Publication date 1975 Publication place United States ISBN 978-0-201-00650-6 (1975 ed.), 978-0-201-83595-3 (1995 ed.) Dewey Decimal 001.6/425 LC Class QA76.6 .B75 The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 19

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