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Adding more people to a late software project just makes it later—that’s not a typo, it’s Brooks’s Law. Managing software isn’t like assembling a puzzle where more hands speed things up. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. knew this the hard way, wrangling IBM’s massive System/360 projects in the 60s. His book rips apart the fantasy that time and manpower are interchangeable and digs into the messy human side of building complex software.
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Adding more people to a late software project doesn’t speed things up. It actually slows everything down. That counterintuitive truth is just the tip of the iceberg in Frederick Brooks Jr.’s classic take on the messy reality of software engineering. Forget the hype about quick fixes and magic bullets — this book dives into why software projects fail and what it really takes to manage them.
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