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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