The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Regular price
$60.83 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$60.83 USD
Unit price
per
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time. The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper No Silver Bullet; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, There will be no silver bullet within ten years.
Author: Frederick Brooks
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Published: 08/02/1995
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.11w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780201835953
Author: Frederick Brooks
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Published: 08/02/1995
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.11w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780201835953
About the Author
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.