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| author | Dave Kerr <dwmkerr@gmail.com> | 2019-05-18 19:56:52 +0800 |
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| committer | Dave Kerr <dwmkerr@gmail.com> | 2019-05-18 19:56:52 +0800 |
| commit | 8e9409fb844037a5d7b4642d9b6a2700ac453937 (patch) | |
| tree | f1450000e843f521e71c73039f13b9120e541280 | |
| parent | f5b60daaac80e9f332699e2c51db00178151e75f (diff) | |
feat: added reading list - 'the mythical man month'
Closes #56.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 12 |
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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. * [The Liskov Substitution Principle](#the-liskov-substitution-principle) * [The Interface Segregation Principle](#the-interface-segregation-principle) * [The Dependency Inversion Principle](#the-dependency-inversion-principle) +* [Reading List](#reading-list) * [TODO](#todo) <!-- vim-markdown-toc --> @@ -79,9 +80,12 @@ This law suggests that in many cases, attempting to accelerate the delivery of a The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks's Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable. +This is a central theme of the book '[The Mythical Man Month](#reading-list)'. + See also: - [Death March](#todo) +- [Reading List: The Mythical Man Month](#reading-list) ### Conway's Law @@ -381,8 +385,14 @@ See also: - [Inversion of Control](#todo) - [Dependency Injection](#todo) +## Reading List + +If you have found these concepts interesting, you may enjoy the following books. + +- [The Mythical Man Month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_Month) - A classic volume on software engineering. [Brooks's Law](#brookss-law) is a central theme of the book. + ## TODO Hi! If you land here, you've clicked on a link to a topic I've not written up yet, sorry about this - this is work in progress! -Feel free to [Raise an Issue](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues) requesting more details, or [Open a Pull Request](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/pulls) to submit your proposed definition of the topic. +Feel free to [Raise an Issue](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues) requesting more details, or [Open a Pull Request](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/pulls) to submit your proposed definition of the topic. |