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publish_date: 03.08.2015 03:00
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title: The Mythical Man Month with Paul M. Jones & Speaking Engagements
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guests: 
    "Paul M. Jones":
        email: pmjones88@gmail.com 
        twitter: pmjones

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### Synopsis

In this episode, I have a fireside chat with internationally recognized PHP expert, and all around good fella Paul M. Jones, about one of his all-time favorite books - The Mythical Man Month.

We talk about why the book is so valuable to him, how it's helped shape his career over the years, and the lessons it can teach all of us as software developers, lessons still relevant over 50 years after it was first published, in 1975.

I've also got updates on what's been happening for me personally in my freelancing business; including speaking at php[world], attending the inaugural PHP South Coast, **and much, much more**.

### Related Links

- [Paul M. Jones](http://paul-m-jones.com/)
- [Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP](http://mlaphp.com/)
- [Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP](https://leanpub.com/sn1php?utm_campaign=sn1php&utm_medium=embed&utm_source=paul-m-jones.com)
- [The Action Domain Responder Pattern](http://pmjones.io/adr/)
- [The Mythical Man Month, by Frederick P. Brooks. Jr](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Mythical-Man-month-Software-Engineering/dp/0201835959)
- [Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439)
- [The Inmates are Running the Asylum](http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Inmates-are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672326140)
- [Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell](http://gladwell.com/outliers/)
- [PHP South Coast Conference](http://2015.phpsouthcoast.co.uk/)
- [PHP[World] Conference](http://world.phparch.com)
- [Nomad PHP](https://nomadphp.com)