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Author: Frederick Phillips Brooks
Publisher: Reading, Mass. ; Don Mills, Ont. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
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Category: Computer programming
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Author: Peter G. W. Keen
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353175280
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 100
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Cost does indeed vary as the product of the number of men and the number of
months . Progress does not . Hence the man - month as a unit for measuring the
size of a job is a dangerous and deceptive myth . It implies that men and months
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Author: Harry R. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 0262045303
Category: Computer science
Page: 520
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Author: Jay Xiong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781441973269
Category: Technology & Engineering
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Author: Peter G. W. Keen
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353175273
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 100
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... to catch up because man - months * The most complete description of this
problem can be found in C. D. Brooks , " The Mythical Man - Month , ” Datamation
, will be lavished on those areas where they had previously been held back .
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Category: Defense industries
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It offers some solutionsfor the system development problems described by
Professor Fred Brooks in his classic book , " The Mythical Man - Month " . The fact
that Professor Brook ' s book is still very popular is a tribute to his pleasant writing
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Author: Southeast Asian Regional Computer Confederation. Convention
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ISBN:
Category: Computers
Page: 609
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But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? The Design of Design addresses these questions. These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline.
Author: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321702069
Category: Computers
Page: 448
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The Mythical Man - Month The concept of the man - month is useful in software
development only for the coarsest level of project planning . The term pre -
supposes that people and months are interchangeable quantities . Figure 12 - 1
shows ...
Author: Ray Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Computer programming
Page: 236
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ECONOMICS IN ACTION THE MYTHICAL MAN - MONTH he concept of
diminishing returns to an input was first formulated by economists during the late
eighteenth century . These economists , notably including Thomas Malthus , drew
their ...
Author: Paul Krugman
Publisher: Worth Pub
ISBN:
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 595
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The Mythical Man - Month Revisited What Have We Learned From the Past
Decade ? based on The Mythical Man - Month , Essays in Software Engineering
by Fred Brooks ( Addison - Wesley , 1975 ) This paper presents a brief overview
of ...
Author: Bill Rieken
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Category: Computer programming
Page:
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state Brooks ' Law : Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later .
Author: Donald J. Reifer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Computer programming
Page: 384
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The mythical man - month The second fallacious thought mode is expressed in
the very unit of effort used in estimating and scheduling : the man - month . Cost
does indeed vary as the product of the number of men and the number of months
.
Author: Alan E. Brill
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Yourdon Press
ISBN:
Category: Computer programming
Page: 292
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Frederick Brooks has described the dangers of such thinking in The Mythical Man
- Month . Managers of programming teams , forever trying to meet deadlines ,
estimate tasks in man - months — the product of the number of programmers by ...
Author: J. David Bolter
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category: Computers and civilization
Page: 264
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The Mythical Man - Month Mistakes revealed after a system is complete might
seem to be relatively unimportant . But let's say that we have built a functional GIS
for a third - party client and have proceeded to another project . A few months
later ...
Author: Michael N. DeMers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
ISBN:
Category: Science
Page: 636
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The “ mythical person - month " The most natural unit for estimating the size of
system development projects and tracking their progress is the person - week or
person - month . A manager therefore might describe a new application as a 20 ...
Author: Steven Alter
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 848
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