The Mythical Man-Month

Software is hard to build. The problems we face today in software projects are as old as software engineering. This book makes that abundantly clear. Written in 1975 about a software project at IBM in the 60s, this book feels as relevant today as it probably was back then.

Knowing and understanding common software project problems helps us mitigate them or at least know what to expect.

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” - Brooks’s law.