Chapter 11. The Mythical Man-Month

EIA Activity: The Mythical Man-Month

Click on the links on the right to answer the following questions.

  1. Question

    Use Link 1 to answer the following questions. True or False: Thomas Malthus argued that populations tend to decrease faster than the supply of food.

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    B.

  2. Question

    Which of the following works did Thomas Malthus write?

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    B.
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  3. Question

    Use Link 2 to answer the following questions. True or False: According to Brook’s Law, “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

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    B.

  4. Question

    In his book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks writes:“The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends on the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities, one can derive schedules using fewer men and more months.”
    How does this relate to the concept of diminishing returns?

    Your response will be graded by your instructor.
    In his book The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks writes:“The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends on the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities, one can derive schedules using fewer men and more months.” How does this relate to the concept of diminishing returns?
  5. Question

    Click on Link 3 and watch the YouTube video clip from the movie The Social Network. In this particular scene, a group of computer programmers sits in front of their laptops at the same round table. Each person is competing on who can hack a website the fastest.
    How many computer programmers does it take to hack a website? Discuss.

    Your response will be graded by your instructor.
    Click on Link 3 and watch the YouTube video clip from the movie The Social Network. In this particular scene, a group of computer programmers sits in front of their laptops at the same round table. Each person is competing on who can hack a website the fastest. How many computer programmers does it take to hack a website? Discuss.

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