solving-for-the-mythical-man-month 
Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 29, 2015
One of the classic pieces of software engineering literature that has had a profound influence on me since first reading it at Penn Engineering is The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Books. Fred initially authored the book in 1975 based on his experiences at IBM managing the development of OS/360.
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Much of modern problems in software development have actually been solved and we keep forgetting this to our peril. I’ve seen some comments about the lack of acknowledgement of females (it uses “man” “him” etc rather than “her”, “women” or “people”). I think of these as classic books on the fundamentals of software development.
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The Product Guy
MARCH 12, 2020
As Brooks points out in The Mythical Man Month , while it takes one woman nine months to make one baby, “nine women can’t make a baby in one month” But clever quotes couldn’t help. From this, I further segmented into logical groupings based on the types of problem the feature was looking to solve.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 11, 2019
Brooks’ law comes from Fred Brooks’ 1975 book The Mythical Man Month. It deals with the assumption that team members and months needed are interchangeable. Bugs are only rendered shallow if the extra eyeballs belong to people with the skills to solve the problem. This is not the case ?—?particularly
The Product Coalition
JULY 10, 2020
TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.
Atomic Spin PM
AUGUST 26, 2020
Brooks’ Law In his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks argued that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” (which became known as Brooks’ Law). As he said, “nine women cannot make a baby in one month.” This is known as “ramp up” time.
Atomic Spin PM
AUGUST 26, 2020
Brooks’ Law In his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks argued that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” (which became known as Brooks’ Law). As he said, “nine women cannot make a baby in one month.” This is known as “ramp up” time.
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