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The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Software Engineering

Brooks's 1975 essays on why adding programmers to a late software project makes it later, and why small, autonomous teams beat large committees. The intellectual scaffolding for Bezos's two-pizza team rule and Amazon's decomposition of the company into independent service-owning groups.

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  • Jeff Bezos

    Farnam Street identifies Brooks's essays as the intellectual basis for Amazon's two-pizza team rule and the decentralized, service-owning org structure Bezos built.

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  • Larry Ellison

    Listed on Larry Ellison's reading list.

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