Project Management
An annotated collection of 3 books, essays & articles on project management, spanning 1975 to 2019. Featuring works by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Robert N. Charette, Jason Yip — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Brooks's 1975 book is famous for one idea — "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" — but the larger argument is more interesting: software projects have an irreducible complexity and a conceptual int…
Why Software Fails
Charette compiles a catalogue of the largest software disasters in history — Denver's airport baggage system, the IRS modernisation, the FBI Virtual Case File — and extracts the structural reasons behind them. Most failu…
Four Variables: Cost, Time, Quality, Scope
Yip's short Medium post revisits the classic project management triangle — cost, time, quality, scope — and argues for being explicit about which of the four is fixed and which is variable in any given project. The piece…