How much of the Mythical Man Month still applies? [closed]

It is still as true today as the day it was written. This is because it is fundamentally about communication between people working on the same project, and none of the advances of the past 30 years have substantially changed that.

Of course, we have learned a lot in those 30 years, but all improvements in our tools and undertanding have been incremental, in accordance with Brooks’ “no silver bullet” prediction.

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