The Mythical Man Month¶
Modules¶
Chapter Checklist¶
- 1 The Tar Pit
- The Programming Systems Product
- The Joys of the Craft
- The Woes of the Craft
- 2 The Mythical Man-Month
- 3 The Surgical Team
- The Problem
- Mill's Proposal
- How it works
- Scaling up
- 4 Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design
- Conceptual Integrity
- Achieving Conceptual Integrity
- Aristocracy and Democracy
- What does the implementer do while waiting?
- 5 The Second-System Effect
- 6 Passing the Word
- 7 Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail?
- 8 Calling the Shot
- 9 Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack
- 10 The Documentary Hypothesis
- 11 Plan to Throw One Away
- 12 Sharp Tools
- 13 The Whole and the Parts
- 14 Hatching a Catastrophe
- 15 The Other Face
- Epilogue