Noun
man-month (plural man-months)
One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1982, pp. 93-94 main Natural language programming has been proposed as a way to eliminate the need for a specialized language for programming. Source: Internet
It was in The Mythical Man-Month that Brooks made the now-famous statement: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Source: Internet
In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. Source: Internet
No silver bullet main Brooks added "No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering"—and further reflections on it, "'No Silver Bullet' Refired"—to the anniversary edition of The Mythical Man-Month. Source: Internet
Man-month is a hypothetical unit of work representing the work done by one person in one month; Brooks' law says that the possibility of measuring useful work in man-months is a myth, and is hence the centerpiece of the book. Source: Internet