The Mythical Man-Month

Posted on 02 September 2017 by 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 Free Download [ The Mythical Man-Month ] By [ Frederick P. Brooks Jr. ] – kino-fada.fr In this classic book on the software development process, Fred Brooks demolishes several persistent myths They never quite go away every new generation just has to learn them over again The first and most dangerous of these myths is the belief that puttingpeople on a project means it ll be completedquickly Brooks includes one of the most brilliant graphs I ve ever seen, plotting number of women against time required to produce a baby Would you believe it the graph is flat at ni In this classic book on the software development process, Fred Brooks demolishes several persistent myths They never quite go away every new generation just has to learn them over again The first and most dangerous of these myths is the belief that puttingpeople on a project means it ll...Since what I know about programming probably could be written on the back of a postcard and wouldn t be worth reading there s nothing worthwhile that I can say about the software engineering side of this collection of essays about software engineering.Further Brooks was writing in the 60s, in part based on experience from the 50s, which I suppose means I l...As far as I can tell, the core tenets of this book aren t really even up for dispute any I don t mean to sound like the grumpy reader mentioned in the epilogue, complaining that the book offered nothing I didn t know already know however experienced he might have been, I still doubt it , but whether from my limited experience in the industry first hand or second hand through the various managers I ve had over the years, the tenet that developers and time aren t interchangeable resources As far as I can tell, the core tenets of this book aren t really even up for dispute any I don t mean to sound like the grumpy reader mentioned in the epilogue, complaining that the book offered nothing I didn t know already know however experienced he might have been, I still doubt it , but whether from my limited experience in the industry first hand or second hand through the various managers I ve had over the years, the tenet that developers and time aren t interchangeable res...Except blatant sexism it was a pretty good book It s a series of experiences that you gradually pick up when you re working in the software industry It s a little outdated, e.g we don t have printed manuals any and we don t have to deal with the woes of constantly updating them, but a lot of wisdoms from this book are still valuable the entire book never uses a female pronoun ever it makes it sound like engineers, managers, technical leads, clients are always only male plus there s Except blatant sexism it was a pretty good book It s a series of experiences that you gradually pick up when you re working in the software industry It s a little outdated, e.g we don t have printed manuals any and we don t have to deal with the woes of constantly updating them, but a lot of wisdoms from t...The Mythical Man Month Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks, .The Mythical Man Month , , ,100 , Silver Bullet The Mythical Man Month Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks, .The Mythical Man Month , , ,100 , Silver Bullet , , o , ,JAVA JAVA C , CMS, .Silver Bull...I read this book originally in college and then re read it after a couple years of coding professionally While there are certainly some dated sections, such as the idea of having the analog of a surgical team to code, many of the suggestions have held against the test of time The two most popular are no silver bullets and adding developers to a late project makes it later The former is that no new technology technique will make an order of magnitude difference in productiv...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 screamingthan 30 years and you still don t understand anything stop m...I was underwhelmed with how badly this text has aged The references, which made sense 15 years ago, no longer hold water, and the most referenced project is certainly no longer the way we write software nowadays While the idea remains valid, I think people writing about this text arerelevant...N m 1995, trong l i b t cho l n t i b n k ni m 20 n m xu t b n The Mythical Man Month , t c gi Fred Brooks kh ng nh nh ng nh n nh c b n trong cu n s ch v n c n nguy n t nh th i s H n m t th p k sau, Mary Poppendieck nh c l i M t cu n s ch kinh i n tr v ng qua th i gian i u cho th y c r t t thay i trong su t 30 n m qua C l l l i g i m h u ch ch ng ta l t gi nh ng trang s ch ng qu , v suy ng m xem li u nh ng nh qu n tr d n c ang i l i nh ng v t xe N m 1995, trong l i b t cho l n t i b n k ni m 20 n m xu t b n The Mythical Man Month , t c gi Fred Brooks kh ng nh nh ng nh n nh c b n trong cu n s ch v n c n nguy n t nh th i s H n m t th p k sau, Mary ...I m really surprised that people still recommend this book It s primarily concerned with very large scale software projects i.e., an operating system , much of the data is anecdotal, and many of the assumptions are simply outdated For instance, Brooks writes about 1 creating paper manuals with documentation about the system that get updated daily for the engineers, 2 strategies for time allocation on centralized computers, and 3 about optimizing for compiled code size Those simply ar I m really surprised that people still recommend this book It s primarily concerned with very large scale software projects i.e., an operating system , much of the data is anecdotal, and many of the assumptions are simply outdated For instance, Brooks writes about 1 creati...

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02 September 2017

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.