The Mythical Man-Month
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The Mythical Man-Month
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#2This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
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#3A nice summary. I was having drinks with a vc and he said the issues always remain organizational. Brooks saw that software is no different.
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#4This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
Aristotle was a very smart chap, but it's hardly the case that everything he said was unchangeable truth. (Random examples: his fundamental physics was really, really wrong -- see http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dy... for a very brief summary of some important errors; he said that men and women have different numbers of teeth, which they don't; his distinction between "substance" and "accidents" has been pretty much abandoned for ages, with the possible exception of the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on transubstantiation.)
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#5A nice summary. I was having drinks with a vc and he said the issues always remain organizational. Brooks saw that software is no different.
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#6Quick summary: The complexity of a project increases as the square of the number of people on the project, so if a project is behind schedule you may want to remove people from it, not add them. It's difficult to predict completion times for software projects but that won't stop non-technical people from setting deadlines, or from asking you to promise to meet deadlines. Waterfall development does not work.
Re: The Mythical Man-Month
#7This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
Aristotle was a very smart chap, but it's hardly the case that everything he said was unchangeable truth. (Random examples: his fundamental physics was really, really wrong -- see http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dy... for a very brief summary of some important errors; he said that men and women have different numbers of teeth, which they don't; his distinction between "substance" and "accide…
You are right, I should've said Plato
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aristotle was a very smart chap, but it's hardly the case that everything he said was unchangeable truth. (Random examples: his fundamental physics was really, really wrong -- see http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dy... for a very brief summary of some important errors; he said that men and women have different numbers of teeth, which they don't; his distinction between "substance" and "accide…
You are right, I should've said Plato
Are you serious?
Re: The Mythical Man-Month
#9This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
I agree with the author's concepts, but I find this book unreadable. It's just too darned dense -- needlessly dense.
Re: The Mythical Man-Month
#10This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
Aristotle was a very smart chap, but it's hardly the case that everything he said was unchangeable truth. (Random examples: his fundamental physics was really, really wrong -- see http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dy... for a very brief summary of some important errors; he said that men and women have different numbers of teeth, which they don't; his distinction between "substance" and "accide…
He's more right than wrong, esp when compared to our naturalism.