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I don't know enough about the others to make too much of a sweeping statement on them, but the heart of Mythical Man-Month is absolutely true and valid. It just has a bad title, so people assume it means something it doesn't.

The heart of the story is this: Adding developers to a delayed project will only delay it further. It's not about parallel vs serial. It's about project management and how to handle delayed projects. I have yet to meet a PM in my career who really understands this, and almost all of them have referenced the saying, "Nine women can't have a baby in a month."

To claim that it's "crap," "critically flawed," and "wrong" strikes me as naive, overly general, and dismissive because you can throw it into a "Gladwellian" bucket and be done with it. Fred Brooks learned his lessons from years of project management. This wasn't a guy who conjured up an idea for a book or a TED talk and just slapped some crap together.