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Fred Brooks, for those who don't know, is the author of the software engineering book The Mythical Man Month ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Mon
by jluxenberg 17y ago
Fred Brooks, for those who don't know, is the author of the software engineering book The Mythical Man Month ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month )
- hga 17y agoAlso the author of "No Silver Bullet": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet I haven't read anything of his that wasn't worth reading and the MMM is still one of the very best.
- cubicle67 17y agoNo Silver Bullet is one of the essays in The Mythical Man Month book
- hga 17y agoIt was added to the 20th anniversary edition; I read it in the April 1987 issue of IEEE Computer with the wonderfully Gothic cover.
- cubicle67 17y agoThanks. I own the 20th anniversary edition and while I knew it had some extra content, including an update to the No Silver Bullet essay, I didn't realise NSB wasn't part of the original edition.
- hga 17y agoYou're welcome. I found it very much worth buying the new MMM edition for his revisiting the "plan to throw one away, because you will" discussion on prototyping (e.g. see Joel's discussion on this). Very useful to me since I'd by then experienced most of the possible outcomes of this question. He's not one to rest on his laurels and is to be commended for turning an epic disaster into a lifetime of suggesting to us with style and verve how we might manage to avoid such ourselves.