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Books like The Mythical Man-Month

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. is about software development, project management, complexity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
    The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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    The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

    Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford · Business

    The Phoenix Project is a business novel — structured like The Goal, which it explicitly acknowledges — that applies the Theory of Constraints and lean manufacturing principles to IT operations and software delivery.

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  2. Accelerate
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    Accelerate

    Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business

    Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.

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  3. An Elegant Puzzle
    An Elegant Puzzle

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    An Elegant Puzzle

    Will Larson · Business

    An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.

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  4. The Manager's Path
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    The Manager's Path

    Camille Fournier · Business

    The Manager's Path is Camille Fournier's guide to the complete arc of engineering leadership, from tech lead to CTO.

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  5. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
    Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

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    Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

    Steven Levy · Science

    Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is Steven Levy's account of the community of computer enthusiasts who drove the digital revolution from the late 1950s through the early 1980s — the original hackers of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club and later AI lab, the hardware hackers of the Bay Area Homebrew Computer Club, and the software entrepreneurs who built the early PC industry.

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  6. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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