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Mythical Man Month and Peopleware both deal with managing work: estimating work, problem of quality, feature creep. Agile offers methods to address these same problems, just a little more evolved, imho.

* working in sprints forces estimations over smaller pieces of work (aim small, miss small).

* sprints, in my experience, challenge feature creep. teams are much more aware of time and challenge anyone making changes to scope. nothing is free.

* teams are responsible for dev and testing (e2e); no throwing crap over the wall.

These books deal with more than these topics.

btw, the quiet room for 2-3 people as described in Peopleware is being thrown out where i work. walls are being torn down to build team collaboration spaces. times have changed.