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This is awesome, thank you for that!
by zmxz 4y ago
This is awesome, thank you for that!
- shagie 4y agoThe other most interesting part of the book (while certainly dated), is the citations to see what came before and more material on it. Weinberg, Gerald M. The Psychology of Computer Programming (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971) Dunn, Robert H. Software Quality: Concepts and Plans (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1990) Christenson, D. A. et al, "Statistical Methods Applied to Software", collected in Schulmeyer, G. Gordon & McManus, James I. Total Quality Management for Software (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992) (and so on) And while one can certainly debate the "is the advice given in something that is 30 or 50 years old still valid" - that debate itself is interesting in considering what was going on in the minds of managers back then and how they tried to solve these problems. There is a certain lack of institutional knowledge and a desire to throw much of it away with the phrase "we're agile" or some other management buzzword of the day... and yet Brook's Law is still as valid today as it was nearly five decades ago (gotta keep an eye on that... I wonder if they'll do a third edition in 2025).