The Mythical Man-Month—Essays on Software Engineering, F. P. Brooks, Jr., Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1975. No. of pages: 195. Price: £3.30

The mythical man-month. By Frederick P.

The mythical man-month. By Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Reading, Massachusetts 1975, $6.50, 195 pages

✍ Brian W. Kernighan 📂 Article 📅 1977 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 227 KB

There are at most a half-dozen books in computing that should be read by everyone involved with programming. Dijkstra's essay in Structured P r o g r d n g [ll, and Weinberg's The PsychoZogz of Computer PrOg&ng are two obvious examples; Frederick P. Brooks's The NthicaZ Man-Month is a third. Fred