feat: added reading list - 'the mythical man month'

Closes #56.
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* [The Liskov Substitution Principle](#the-liskov-substitution-principle)
* [The Interface Segregation Principle](#the-interface-segregation-principle)
* [The Dependency Inversion Principle](#the-dependency-inversion-principle)
* [Reading List](#reading-list)
* [TODO](#todo)
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The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks's Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable.
This is a central theme of the book '[The Mythical Man Month](#reading-list)'.
See also:
- [Death March](#todo)
- [Reading List: The Mythical Man Month](#reading-list)
### Conway's Law
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- [Inversion of Control](#todo)
- [Dependency Injection](#todo)
## Reading List
If you have found these concepts interesting, you may enjoy the following books.
- [The Mythical Man Month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_Month) - A classic volume on software engineering. [Brooks's Law](#brookss-law) is a central theme of the book.
## TODO
Hi! If you land here, you've clicked on a link to a topic I've not written up yet, sorry about this - this is work in progress!
Feel free to [Raise an Issue](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues) requesting more details, or [Open a Pull Request](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/pulls) to submit your proposed definition of the topic.
Feel free to [Raise an Issue](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/issues) requesting more details, or [Open a Pull Request](https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/pulls) to submit your proposed definition of the topic.