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

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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 someone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer circle of relatives 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 conversant in his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

 

The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all of 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 as a result of the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is subsequently critical; and that it’s difficult but conceivable to reach 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.”


The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon as conceivable — from Amazon.com Books, your library, or someone else. You (and/or your colleagues) will be endlessly grateful. Very Highest Recommendation.

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