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...have bedeviled the computer business since its birth some 35 years ago. The program that runs the IBM System/360 mainframe computer, for example, arrived six months later than first promised. Frederick Brooks, who managed the project in the mid-'60s, anatomized the problem in a book called The Mythical Man-Month and concluded that it is in the nature of , software to require more time than is scheduled...
...idlers, Hopkins pursued a more charitable concept for his Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), which in 1935 grew into the WPA. While it cost Ickes $330 to produce one man-month of employment, it cost Hopkins only $82, for Hopkins spent 86? out of every dollar on wages for the needy, only 10.5? on material and 3.5? on administration. In months of bitter infighting with Ickes and everyone else, Hopkins steadily amassed money and power for his spending machine. The WPA became the nation's biggest employer, hiring an average of 2.1 million people annually (8 million...
Zbikowski put in a "man-month" tinkering with his program and then went to Lew Law, the director of the Science Center, who liked the idea and gave Zbikowski an independent computer account...