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The Mythical Man-Month
Abstract
The book, The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1975 (excerpted in Datamation, December 1974), gathers some of the published data about software engineering and mixes it with the assertion of a lot of personal opinions. In this presentation, the author will list some of the assertions and invite dispute or support from the audience. This is intended as a public discussion of the published book, not a regular paper.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brooks, F. P.
- Venue
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices
- Published
- 1975-04
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 193
- ISSN
- 0362-1340 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-1160
- OpenAlex
- W2123586642
- Cited by
- 3,224
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 237.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
