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Brooks revisits NSB 20 years after the fact and makes pretty strong arguments that specific intervening technologies have not disproved his original conclusions
by ticmasta 7y ago
Brooks revisits NSB 20 years after the fact and makes pretty strong arguments that specific intervening technologies have not disproved his original conclusions. I think we could do the same today.
The author of this post conflates better with a 10x improvement from a few anecdotal experiences that are themselves extremely accidental to the act of creating software. He may have a point about the large volume of accidental improvement areas remaining but I think this is because like the JS ecosystem they are growing faster than we solve them.
I think the reality is likely the author is themselves a 10x improvement over their decade-past self.
- rcthompson 7y ago> Brooks revisits NSB 20 years after the fact Do you have a link to this? I'd like to read it.
- pjmorris 7y agoClosest thing I could find was a report [0] on a 2007 panel discussion with Brooks at OOPSLA, titled “No Silver Bullet” Reloaded – A Retrospective on “Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" Here's [1] a link to his 1995 update, an excerpt from an anniversary edition of 'The Mythical Man Month' [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1297846.1297973 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1297846.1297973 [1] http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y agoI can't find a PDF, but it's a chapter in a newer edition of "The Mythical Man Month" called "no silver bullet refired"