Topic Review #3: The Mythical Man-Month

Topic Review #3: The Mythical Man-Month 

What is the mythical man-month?  

What are some of the factors that contribute to Brooks’ theories?  

• What impact do these theories have on our projects and our jobs as project managers (as we know it today)?  
• What are some things that you think you can do to avoid becoming a victim of the mythical man-month? 
• Topic Review Papers:
• Topic review papers are intended to expose the students to current and new topics in the field of project management. The objective is to demonstrate an understanding of the topic and the issues that are affecting today’s program/project manager. Topic Review papers are intended to be approximately 2 pages in length and written in a concise format (executive summary style).  

Topic Review papers (and others as appropriate) are scanned using SafeAssign. SafeAssign checks for potential plagiarism in the submitted assignment and determines the amount of content in the assignment that is from other sources. Cases of potential plagiarism/cheating resulting in findings from SafeAssign will be dealt with like any other case of cheating in the classroom.

Topic Review papers will utilize the citation-sequence style as define by the Council of Science Editors and defined here: https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/documentation/do…