The mythical man-month : essays on software engineering

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Date
1975
Creator
Brooks Jr., Frederick P.
Dimensions
overall: 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 9 in
Publisher
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Copyright Owner
© Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Keywords
Software engineering
Object ID
102676577

This popular book on software engineering observed that adding people to a late project almost always makes it later. Brooks wrote it in response to IBM-chief Tom Watson’s asking why programming projects were so hard to manage.