The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition). Frederick P. Brooks

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)


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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) Frederick P. Brooks
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Software engineer and computer scientist, known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his book The Mythical Man-Month. Rosenberg sprinkles possible explanations throughout his book; the narrative glides back and forth between events in the lifecycle of Chandler and relevant observations by past gurus of software engineering. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. The grand old man of the field is Fred Brooks, Ph.D. Available: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Mythical-ManMonth-The-Essays-on-Software-Engineering-Anniversary-Edition/9780201835953.page. Brooks' book- “The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering”. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks's law is that adding programmers to a late software project makes it later. I've readed the 20th anniversary edition. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition). This book is so timeless it's scary. Essays from a Computer Scientist (2010); Concepts and Evolution (1997); Essays on Software Engineering (1995); Automatic Data Processing (1963). In the 2nd chapter that carries the same title as the book, Brooks argues that the man-month is a myth and that man-power cannot be directly interchanged for time as many managers in that time (and still today) assume. The discipline of Project Management is organizing and managing resources (e.g. He thus states Brook's Law, that adding Co., August 1995. '56, who wrote a classic essay, “The Mythical Man-Month,” in 1975, at the close of the first years of programming's industrial era. Note: Original first edition dates from 1975 (!!!).