Chapter 1 The Tar Pit 001
Chapter 2 The Mythical Man-Month 009
Chapter 3 The Surgical Team 023
Chapter 4 Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design 033
Chapter 5 The Second-System Effect 045
Chapter 6 Passing the Word 053
Chapter 7 Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail? 065
Chapter 8 Calling the Shot 079
Chapter 9 Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack 089
Chapter 10 The Documentary Hypothesis 097
Chapter 11 Plan to Throw One Away 105
Chapter 12 Sharp Tools 115
Chapter 13 The Whole and the Parts 127
Chapter 14 Hatching a Catastrophe 139
Chapter 15 The Other Face 149
Chapter 16 No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software
Engineering 165
Chapter 17 “No Silver Bullet” Refired 195
Chapter 18 Propositions of The Mythical Man-Month: True or False? 219
Chapter 19 The Mythical Man-Month after 20 Years 245
Epilogue285
Notes and References 287