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- noun One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much
work orlabor is required or consumed to perform sometask .
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Examples
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The problem is that there's not even a handful of people in the project who know enough about this to finish it in around a man-month or so.
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Where the mythical man-month applies is in the combined effort on a large, sufficiently complex project.
Slashdot samzenpus 2010
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Even at the Mythical man-month rate of 3 lines a day .. 6 million developers .. thats a lot of code.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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Even at the Mythical man-month rate of 3 lines a day .. 6 million developers .. thats a lot of code.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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Even at the Mythical man-month rate of 3 lines a day .. 6 million developers .. thats a lot of code.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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Even at the Mythical man-month rate of 3 lines a day .. 6 million developers .. thats a lot of code.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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It's downside was that it wasn't schema driven so you got your work done, but some critics would say that it didn't following a schema driven, version nightmare system that takes the rest of your man-month to do right.
ASP.NET Weblogs 2009
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Even at the Mythical man-month rate of 3 lines a day .. 6 million developers .. thats a lot of code.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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