"There are maybe two(!) good books on the subject, Peopleware and Making Software." What about Fred Brooks's works? Not being facetious -- curious to know if

"There are maybe two(!) good books on the subject, Peopleware and Making Software." What about Fred Brooks's works? Not being facetious -- curious to know if they slipped your mind or if you just don't rate them. Criminally underrated comment on the topic: "Part of the problem is that the discourse on methodology is mostly conducted by people who don't themselves do the work. Imagine a bunch of managers working out a 'process' for, say, mathematicians. They'd be laughed out of the room." (gruseom, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406051 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406051) Along that vein, while we're talking scientists -- are there studies on scientist productivity? Even for computer scientists, I'm pretty sure no one's going around debating whether an academic paper is better if it's written by two researchers versus one. The one obvious parallel I can think of is peer review vis-a-vis code review. But that is a process for after the initial work is produced, not one that dictates how someone should conduct the thinking process for their job.