+++ date = '2025-09-30T09:16:55+02:00' draft = true title = 'The Mythical Man Month' +++ _The Other Face_ is a chapter which tries to explain what good documentation looks like. Brooks describes nine principles which should guide the programmer to write a useful description. I won't cite them here, but what is more interesting is that he suggests that it is imperative the coder writes the documentation _before_ starting to code.