The Mythical Man-Month¶
Brooks, F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley.
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Primes¶
- Boundary State Loss
- In software, design intent lives in the head of the engineer who built a system, and the codebase, comments, and commit messages are all that remain when she leaves, so the next engineer inherits a working system but not the why and accumulates defensive technical debt.
This sourceArgues that the conceptual integrity and design intent held by a system's builders is largely lost when they leave, leaving successors the code but not the rationale.
- In software, design intent lives in the head of the engineer who built a system, and the codebase, comments, and commit messages are all that remain when she leaves, so the next engineer inherits a working system but not the why and accumulates defensive technical debt.
- Interfacial Energy
- In organisational design each handoff between teams or contractors carries coordination overhead — status meetings, vocabulary translation, document handoffs, mistrust — and the cost scales with the number and length of organisational seams, not with the work done inside any team.
This sourceEstablishes that coordination overhead scales with the number of communication paths (n(n−1)/2) among team members, not with the work done — the organizational analogue of a per-seam cost.
- In organisational design each handoff between teams or contractors carries coordination overhead — status meetings, vocabulary translation, document handoffs, mistrust — and the cost scales with the number and length of organisational seams, not with the work done inside any team.
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