The Mythical Man-Month

1975 non-fiction work by Fred Brooks
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The Mythical Man-Month

Summary

The Mythical Man-Month is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (503 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Mythical Man-Month authored Fred Brooks[3].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's publisher is recorded as Addison-Wesley[5].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's followed by is recorded as No Silver Bullet[7].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's publication date is recorded as +1975-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07py_[11].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's Open Library ID is recorded as OL3510570W[12].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's Internet Archive ID is recorded as mythicalmanmonth00broo[13].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's main subject is recorded as software development[14].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 646897[15].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Mythical Man-Month'}[16].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19606368[17].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's OCLC work ID is recorded as 2083953[18].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 1905885[19].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's KBpedia ID is recorded as MythicalManMonth[20].
  • The Mythical Man-Month's FOLDOC ID is recorded as The+Mythical+Man-Month[21].

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Works and Contributions

The Mythical Man-Month authored Fred Brooks[3].

Why It Matters

The Mythical Man-Month ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (503 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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