This is a post brought about by my previous post re: The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks, the father of the IBM Mainframe OS.
It's an interesting book, and if you've never read it, I would highly recommend it. I was reading over the excerpts at www.amazon.com (an old girlfriend of mine now has my copy... 🙂) and thought I'd post this page from the examples:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201835959/ref=lib_rd_ss_TT04/104-8018656-0577544?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=12#reader-link
the book is listed here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201835959/qid=1064442824/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8018656-0577544?v=glance&s=books
I especially like the part where he compares adding more programmers to an already late project as being akin to trying to douse a fire with gasoline.
Looks like a good read, I might have to check it out.
thanks six looks like a good book
