A Book Call The Mythical Man Month - 1458 Words

Man Month which represents the production effort a single persons in a 4 week period. This is also known as labor month. To figure out the total hour of a man-month is done this way. A man day usually runs 8 hours a day for five days a week which equals forty hours a week (8 hours a day * 5 days a week = 40 hours a week). In a normal mouth you will have for weeks within that month, so we take the forty hours a week and multiply that by four which will gives us one hundred and sixty hours a month (40 hours a week * 4 = 160 hours a month) . Brooks s law says that the possibility of measuring useful work in man-months is a myth, and is hence the centerpiece of the book. In 1975 Fred Brooks wrote a book call The Mythical Man-Month. This book†¦show more content†¦This will have to be reputable with a set of multipart interrelationships between tasks and the workers that will be performing them. Consequently, a project already running behind its schedule will cause it to become an even later project by assigning more programmers to. Why? Simple, to get new programmers up to par on the project will take time. They will have to increase the communication overhead will consume an increasing amount of the calendar time that is available. As in increases, the communication between people among themselves and their output decreases, the project will become delayed further with ever person that is added. According to Brooks himself, the law is an outrageous oversimplification but it internments the general rule. There are two points that Brooks takes into factor and explain why it works this way: †¢ When people are added to a project, it takes time before the project become productive. In his book, The Mythical Man-Month, calls this the ramp up time. Engineering events in software projects are sometime complex that the new workers must become educated on the project work that was preceded before they began work. This normally requires diverting resources that are already busy within the project to educate the late comers, putting a temporary halt to their productivity in order to work with new workers who are not contributing expressively yet. Every worker that join the team need to also integrate with