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Fred Brooks
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Born1931
Died2022
StatusDead

Managed OS/360 at IBM, then wrote The Mythical Man-Month — adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Led OS/360 — the most ambitious software project ever — and wrote 'The Mythical Man-Month' (1975): 'adding people to a late project makes it later.'\n\n'No Silver Bullet' (1986) is the other essay; Turing Award 1999.