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The problem with The Mythical Man Month is that it contains brilliant observations about software development in general, as well as brilliant observations about developing huge mainframe operative systems at IBM in the 70s.

It's hard for most non-professionals to tell what's what.

I would have liked to write a readers guide or something, but I don't think it'd be as good...




I think you could argue in favour of Peopleware as the "practical" complement for MMM.

Although I'd be curious to hear of any recent books that hit the level of these two.




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