Could the Mythical Man-Month have been avoided?
Fred Brooks' 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month (40 plus years old by the time you read this book) is the most heavily cited work in all of software engineering literature. Tanenbaum's classic textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation makes a (brief) mention of Brooks' title:
"One of the designers of OS/360, Fred Brooks, wrote a witty and incisive book (Brooks, 1975) describing his experiences with OS/360. While it would be impossible to summarize the book here, suffice it to say that the cover shows a herd of prehistoric beasts stuck in a tar pit..."
Here, there is a direct relevance. To explain why, let's make a variant of the Big-Coffee notation as introduced by Steve Luscher. While perhaps ...
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