The Mythical Man-Month - Book (Used)

Increase your score on the Hacker Purity Test with this book!

First published in 1975, this book covers the trials and tribulations of a software dev manager. The titular take-away is that when a project falls behind, adding more man-hours to it will NOT get it done faster, because of the knowledge transfer/training required to onboard the new people. Could be a perfect gift for your boss! ;)

Mentioned in The Hacker Purity Test:

 0226 Do you own volumes 1 to 3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_?
 0227 ... Have you done all the exercises?
 0228 ... Do you have a MIX simulator?
 0229 ... Can you name the unwritten volumes?

 0230 Can you quote from _The Mythical Man-month_?
 0231 ... Did you participate in the OS/360 project?

 0232 Do you have a TTL handbook?

Funny quote from the Fortune Article mentioned on the wiki:

'Some people have called the book the "bible of software engineering." I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.'

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/index.htm