The Mythical Man-Month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
It was written 40 years ago, but it is still relevant to today. Its so important to think about how to build effective engineering teams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
It was written 40 years ago, but it is still relevant to today. Its so important to think about how to build effective engineering teams.
"It is the one thing every software manager needs to read... not just once, but once a year." (Joel Spolsky)
The insights from reading this book years ago certainly helped me navigate project management as a rescue guy. By the time I was hired, the failing project was already part way through the experience that Brooks' book is based on, and he was writing the OS!!!
He writes about the origin of the svc (supervisor call) in OS360. They needed a way to keep track of them as they were popping up from all over, so they made a list, and you added yours to it, then other groups could check the list before they wrote another version of the same function.