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Title: Showing its age
Review: This is the book whose title has become synonymous with managing teams in software companies. Though this 2nd edition came out in 1999, most of the content is identical to that of the original 1987 edition. 22 years later, that's a problem. So much of our common practices and conventional wisdom have changed (in part due to the impact of this book) that much of the advice in the book is obsolete. True, gems like the inverse relationship between noise and code quality will likely stay relevant for a century, but most of this book is about getting programmers to work together. The fact is, today's programmer is a different beast from the programmer of the '80s.For more up-to-date material, you might look to theJoel on Softwarebooks, or any number of blogs.
