The Mythical Man-Month

That put into words so many things that I felt about computer programming, if nothing else the humanness of programming as a pursuit.

on HN, 2011

My personal thoughts were that it would be hard to see success with the model unless you made sure all the roles were recognized as being equally important towards the success of the team.

on HN, 2020

The reality, of course, is that the book was so spot-on and insightful that many of its ideas have simply been absorbed into the way we approach software development.

on HN, 2011

So, good book that we probably all should actually read instead of just spouting about nine pregnant women, but not all of it will be relevant today.

on HN, 2020

I see the Mythical Man Month tossed around as an excuse for not trying sometimes - by people who haven't even tried to split up and spread out chunks of work in parallel - but onboarding cost is definitely real.

on HN, 2020

The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks really helped me learn to think about large projects from a personnel and planning perspective.

on HN, 2011

For software engineering, all the essays in Fred Brooks' 'Mythical Man Month' were formative.

on HN, 2024

The reason it is continually mentioned is companies make this mistake over and over and over again.

on HN, 2020

So yeah, some of it has dated, and some of it I disagree with, but it kills me that a lot of the lessons are still not learnt 45 years later.

on HN, 2020