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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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The Mythical Man-Month
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Igor Tsinman
May 01, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks это уже классика. Все, кто хоть как-то связан с компютерами и/или проектами просто обязаны прочесть эту книгу. Заказчикам тоже не помешает узнать как все выглядит на самом деле.

The Mythical Man-Month это кладезь, хорошо изложеных замечаний, идей, рекомендаций и еще масса прочего полезного материала. 100 процентов идей Брукса актуальны сегодня!!!

В Израильслих стартапх эта книга хорошо известна, а выражение "Silver Bullet"
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Vladyslav
Mar 11, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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One can't simply go and write classic book about software development.

I came across this book long time ago somewhere in the end of high school. Later during university years I had an attempt to buy the book but skipped it in favor to some other programming book. At that time I made a promise to myself that I will read it one day. The day has come.
This is amazing how many people from IT industry heard about this book. I believe only legendary Donald E. Knuth series can compete with. And even
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Miroslav
The book has been written by a person with a lot of experience in programming filed.
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Oct 10, 2011 rated it really liked it
Читать лучше в оригинале. Перевод от «Символ-Плюс» отвратителен.
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