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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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Scott Pearson
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What is relevant about a book, in its second edition, that was originally written a generation or two ago about managing computer projects? The author Brooks led the management of the project for IBM decades ago.

The answer to this question is simple and is evident in the title. Scaling software projects from smaller-to-larger does not scale linearly. In case you don't know what this means, scaling non-linearly means that a project twice as big does not require twice as many "man-months." It more
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A very good book about how much programming is about people, not code.
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