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The Mythical Man-Month https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~yfcai/CS451/RequiredReadings/MythicalManMonth.pdf https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~yfcai/CS451/RequiredReadings/Myt

• monocasa 9y ago
  And the paper that inspired it, Melvin Conway's "How Do Committees Invent?" http://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html http://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html
  • exelius 9y ago
    This is great -- I never knew about this paper but it reinforces a lot of things I learned. Namely, if you want to know how a company really works, ignore the org charts and map the systems architecture (a corollary to the author's thesis). That it still holds true almost 50 years later is pretty amazing.
• kabdib 9y ago
  Favorite quote: "I gave my manager two copies of this book so he could read it twice as fast."