You've never been on a project that was behind and management decided to add resources to it? Impressive! The book is worthwhile, not just for the central les

You've never been on a project that was behind and management decided to add resources to it? Impressive! The book is worthwhile, not just for the central lesson, but WHY (TL;DR: communication overhead between different individuals increase as you add "nodes" - interestingly, you can make analogies to L2 cache expiration problems and others) and also a nice view at IBM of the past. And it was written in an era where there wasn't the need to make every book 300 pages long, so it's generally a lot more meat/page, though hardly perfect.