Frederick Phillips Brooks

Essays on Software Engineering

The Mythical Man-month

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

The orderly Sweet-Williams are dismayed at their son's fondness for the messy pastime of gardening.

Pratul

I want to print many copies of this book.
I want to print many copies and roll them up.
I want to roll them up and take them to meetings with my clients. 
I want to take them to meetings and hit them over the head repeatedly while screaming "more... than... 30... years... and you... still... don't... understand... anything... stop... making... me... write... bad... software...!"

Seriously.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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."

Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

The Mythical Man-Month

Israel Mendes

Great book for understanding more about quality and productivity around programming. But, because the first version was printed in 1975, a lot of the examples and chapters are outdated. I still recommend the reading because a lot of the knowledge quoted there are applicable to this day.

The Mythical Man-month Essays on Software Engineering

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