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The Mythical Man-Month

D'oh! In the whole GTD, 43 Folders feeding frenzy I forget the classic laying in wait on the bookshelf at work.


Silly DeeDee!



The Mythical Man-Month
: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software project management written by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.


His observation, known as Brooks' Law, was simple: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Brooks' law is often summarized as 'Nine women cannot have a baby in one month'.

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