Let me show my age by recommending, The Mythical Man Month. It is comparatively shorter book written more than 20 years back. The ideas in them are still valid.
We still add people to late project thinking it will somehow rescue the project. And we still look for the silver bullet. We still suffer from lack of effective communication between team-members.
Go read this short book. You will benefit immensely.
So glad someone else recommended this. But yeah, the last edition is 20 years old, and it's the 20-year anniversary edition... The first edition was published in 1975 originally, and some of the essays are a few years older.
Sometimes I think we forget how old our craft actually is.
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Let me show my age by recommending, The Mythical Man Month. It is comparatively shorter book written more than 20 years back. The ideas in them are still valid.
We still add people to late project thinking it will somehow rescue the project. And we still look for the silver bullet. We still suffer from lack of effective communication between team-members.
Go read this short book. You will benefit immensely.
So glad someone else recommended this. But yeah, the last edition is 20 years old, and it's the 20-year anniversary edition... The first edition was published in 1975 originally, and some of the essays are a few years older.
Sometimes I think we forget how old our craft actually is.