The Mythical Man-Month
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What’s it about?
Why adding more programmers to a late project only makes it later. A timeless, humanistic look at the real challenges of building complex software.
You’ll learn
- Adding people to a late project makes it later
- Conceptual integrity is the key to great systems
- The essential vs. accidental tasks of software
- Beware the second-system effect