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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> If Brook was still alive, we could have tried to ask him.  But since
> he is not, and since I have no plans to read his books by myself, my
> only chance of knowing is for you or for John Levine to find the
> definition it in his writings and then tell me.

For what it's worth, I recommend reading both The Mythical Man-Month
and The Design of Design.  Fred Brooks is (or now was) a perceptive
and experienced guy, who also puts effort into his writing, and there
is a lot of insight in what he has to say.

Incidentally I recommend the later 20th Anniversary edition of MMM,
mainly for the update of his comments in the earlier edition.