Interview with Fred Brooks (Fortune magazine)

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January 10th, 2006
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Interview with Fred Brooks (Fortune magazine)

Fortune magazine has an interview with the legendary Fred Brooks, author of the grand classic The mythical man month. 30 years in print and the book still outsells almost every project management or software development book out there.

They asked him about open source, Microsoft Vista, and how Brooks law applies to other fields.

Interview with Fred Brooks.

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