The Mythical Man Month

Despite its weaknesses (such as described in the 1975 collection of essays The Mythical Man Month [11]), the traditional software development life cycle (collect requirements, design, implement, test, deploy, maintain) has remained the standard framework for software development. However, in recent years it has become clear that the life cycle is not well suited to applications that are experimental in nature (i.e., where there is no precedent for the particular kind of application) or that exist in rapidly changing environments. This has led to the development of agile methodologies (also known as lightweight... 

Brooks FP. The mythical man month. 1975, Boston Addison Wesley. 

Brooks F. The Mythical Man-Month. Reading, MA Addison-Wesley, 1975. 

In the Mythical Man Month Brooks provides the following five reasons as to why software programming projects often fall badly behind schedule ... 

Brooks, F. P. (1995), The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA. 

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