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For this installment of PBOTW (Pete's Book Of The Whatever[^]), I'd like to reintroduce you to an old favourite, or introduce you to it for the first time if you are unaware of this book. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering / Edition 2 by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.[^]. This is not a modern book, by any standards, but it had a profound impact on the way I viewed the estimation process. The essays in this book are generally still as relevant today as the day they were first written, which shows how little has really changed in the software development world from a day to day development point of view.

In a nutshell, the main essay looks at the diminishing returns you get when throwing resources at a problem. So, if it takes one man a month to solve a problem, throwing two people at the same problem won't get it done in half a month. Strangely enough, many managers still fail to grasp this simple concept.
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