Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Chapter 1 The Tar Pit
Chapter 2 The Mythical Man-Month
Chapter 3 The Surgical Team
Chapter 4 Aristoc racy,DEmoracy, and System Design
Chapter 5 The Second-System Effect
Chapter 6 Passing the Word
Chapter 7 Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail?
Chapter 8 Calling the Shot
Chapter 9 Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack
Chapter 10 The Documentary Hypothesis
Chapter 11 Plan to Throw One Away
Chapter 12 Sharp Tools
Chapter 13 The Whole and the Parts
Chapter 14 Hatching a Catastrophe
Chapter 15 The Other Face
Chapter 16 No Silver Bullet-Essence and Accident
Chapter 17 "No Silver Bullet" REfired
Chapter 18 Propositions of The Mythical Man-Month: True or False?
Chapter 19 The Mythical Man-Month after 20 years
Epilogue
Notes and Referecnes
Index