The Mythical Man-Month of IBM’s OS/360 Software

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The Mythical Man-Month is a concept developed by Fred Brooks while he was tasked with guiding a team of programmers to develop a new operating system dubbed the “360.”


Fred Brooks Software Programmer for IBM's OS 360 Project

Fred Brooks Software Programmer for IBM’s OS 360 Project



Fred realized that adding more programmers because the project had fallen behind and was late, did not actually help get it done sooner, and actually caused further delay. He wrote about this concept in his book “The Mythical Man-Month” which was later named “Brooks law.”

IBM decided to discontinue production of OS/360 due to the hardware having memory limitations as well as the development taking much longer than anticipated.

IBM OS 360 Software

Many of the structures, techniques and scheduling in the current software development environment is passed down from this epic failure in software programming.

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  1. Kelly Hubbard
    Kelly Hubbard says:

    The Super Nintendo era was such a great time to grow up in the former United States of America. The early 90’s was a great time to be a kid! It really surprises me how 16-bit game design has not caught on like the over used retro 8-bit has. I was hoping games would start to graduate to the 16-bit era of nostalgia but it has not. Hopefully soon!

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