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Most people associate "The Mythical Man-Month" with Brooks’s law: adding people to a late project makes it later. For me, the best part of it is one page at the
by henrik_w 11y ago
Most people associate "The Mythical Man-Month" with Brooks’s law: adding people to a late project makes it later. For me, the best part of it is one page at the end of chapter one, entitled The Joys of the Craft.
It is excellent on what makes programming so great: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/ http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
- impostervt 11y agoI always enjoyed the part that basically said that management exists to decrease the number of lines of communication necessary for a project to function...and that's pretty much the only reason they exist ;)
- agumonkey 11y agoThe sad part is how many managers aren't aware of this.
- cema 11y agoOr, more likely, they simply don't care.
- agumonkey 11y agoIn a way yes, but they do care about time to completion, even a lazy, cheat-first manager would love to have that. Then, all things considered it seems easier to implement a 'put more resources, fake some numbers, notify client of delays (just like every other projects so they won't rant that much)'
- mooreds 11y agoThe good ones are. The ones that want a project to succeed will learn.