Carolina QuotesHow does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.
Fred Brooks Carolinian
Source
Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
- work
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)
- year
- 1975
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