The Mythical Year of Experiencehttp://blog.slickedit.com/2007/10/the-mythical-year-of-experience/In one of the greatest books ever written about software development, “The Mythical Man Monthâ€, Fred Brooks refutes the premise that effort can be quantified in “man monthsâ€, the amount of work done by one person in one month. The central flaw is illustrated as follows: if a woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 women should be able to have a baby in 1 month. The core problem is that not all tasks can be reduced into parallel subtasks. Even when they can, breaking work into smaller units often adds overhead.
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