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<p>Created page with &quot;The &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that &quot;adding m...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''''Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering''''' is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that &quot;adding manpower to a late software project makes it later&quot;.<br /> <br /> This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.<br /> <br /> == Summary ==<br /> <br /> Brooks' observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360.<br /> <br /> He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later conclude had, counter-intuitively, delayed the project even further.<br /> <br /> He also made the mistake of asserting that one project -- writing an ALGOL compiler -- would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (it required longer).<br /> <br /> The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Computer programming]]<br /> * [[Software development]]<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> <br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month The Mythical Man-Month]</div>

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