My Tech Reads @MyTechReads

Bits of knowledge from the most influential IT reads. Currently reading: The Mythical Man-Month @jorgelr CDMX Joined June 2018

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My Tech Reads @MyTechReads

7 years ago

“An omelet, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices: wait or it eat raw.” #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

“In tasks that can be partitioned but which require communication among the subtasks, the effort of communication must be added to the amount of work to be done. “#TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

Communication effort increases as n(n-1)/2 where n is the number of team members. #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

Communication complicates adding more engineers to a project. #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

The man-month is the unit of effort used in project estimation. This only reflects cost but not progress. #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

While estimating remember that software developers are optimistic creatures. #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

Never confuse effort with progress. #TheMythicalManMonth

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Margaret-Anne Storey @margaretstorey

7 years ago

Fred Brooks: Why mythical man month book is still relevant today (selling 10K copies a year despite 43 years old) because much of it is about people, and although the stage keeps changing, the characters are the same #icse2018

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tmornini.hodl @tmornini

7 years ago

@CodeWisdom @NickSzabo4 2/3 planning, 1/3 coding Fred Brooks, Mythical Man Month

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InsideJobber @Inside_Jobber

7 years ago

How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time. -- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month #fortune

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Peter Hoogers @peterhoogers

7 years ago

My old copy is missing in action so had to order it again. Maybe I should’ve bought 2 so I could re-read it twice as fast. #mythicalmanmonth

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7 years ago

The worst assumption you can make in a software project is that all will go well. #TheMythicalManMonth

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7 years ago

Now I want to have kids… maybe :)

Sarah Kimmel @FamilyTech

7 years ago

Now I want to have kids… maybe :)

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My Tech Reads @MyTechReads

7 years ago

Three persons can build a small house in 18 days, to build the same house in 6 days, how many persons are required? Three persons can build an app in 18 days, to build the same app in 6 days, how many persons are required? Is not the same. #TheMythicalManMonth

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Alfredo Motta @mottalrd

7 years ago

Sometimes strategic breakthroughs will be a new algorithm. Much more often, strategic breakthroughs will come from redoing the representation of the data or tables. [...] Representation is the essence of #programming. - Fred Brooks in Mythical Man Month

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Daniel Mezick @DanielMezick

7 years ago

@tottinge @AElssamadisy @logosity @cowboyd Fred Brooks. The Abraham of Agile tcagley.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/pla…

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andrew chen @andrewchen

7 years ago

Here’s my top 10 for tech books. andrewchen.co/ten-classic-bo… Crossing the Chasm The Inmates are Running the Asylum The Mythical Man Month Designing Interactions The Design of Everyday Things Founders at Work Innovator’s Dilemma High Output Management Four Steps to the Epiphany [etc]