What Brook's expects for Mythical Man-Month

What Brook's expects for Mythical Man-Month's last chapter...the last chapter of his book (a recent edition/some 25th anniversary republication) is a linear bullet list of all the claims made in the original, chapter by chapter. I think his intent was to encourage what I am about to do which is take each of those points and comment: were they right or wrong, do they still hold, is it relevant at all, etc. So the first installment will be on the intro to that chapter:

Much more is known today about software engineering than was known in Which of the assertions in the original 1975 edition have been supported by data and experience? Which have been disproved? Which have been obsoleted by the changing world? To help you judge, here in outline form is the essence of the 1975 book-assertions l believed to be true: facts and rule-of-thumb-type generalizations from experience-extracted without change of meaning. (You might ask, ''If this is all the original book said, why did it take 177 pages to say it?'') Comments in brackets are new.

Most of these propositions are operationally testable. My hope in putting them forth in stark form is to focus readers' thoughts, measurements, and comments.

Ah...that's exactly what I just said I was going to do. So really, I only have one comment. Re: "Why did it take 177 pages to say it?" ...I take that as a rhetorical humor; of course it takes a book to explain a bunch of bullet points. My further comments come with the expectation is you have read the book (or if you have a question about his point, to go check the full original text...or just assume).