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    The mythical man-month : essays on software engineering / Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

    By: Brooks, Frederick P., Jr, 1931-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Reading, Massachusetts : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Anniversary edDescription: xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0201835959; 9780201835953Subject(s): Software engineering | Information technology projects | Information technology projects | Software engineering | Programmatuurtechniek | Ingeniería de softwareAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Mythical man-month.DDC classification: 005.1/068 LOC classification: QA76.758 | .B75 1995Other classification: 54.52
    Contents:
    The tar pit -- The mythical man-month -- The surgical team -- Aristocracy, democracy, and system design -- The second-system effect -- Passing the word -- Why did the Tower of Babel fail? -- Calling the shot -- Ten pounds in a five-pound sack -- The documentary hypothesis -- Plan to throw one away -- Sharp tools -- The whole and the parts -- Hatching a catastrophe -- The other face -- No silver bulled--essence and accident -- "No silver bullet" refired -- Propositions of The Mythical man-month: true or false? -- The Mythical man-month after 20 years.
    Summary: These essays draw from Brooks' 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. -- from publisher description.
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    Anniversary ed. has four new chapters.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

    The tar pit -- The mythical man-month -- The surgical team -- Aristocracy, democracy, and system design -- The second-system effect -- Passing the word -- Why did the Tower of Babel fail? -- Calling the shot -- Ten pounds in a five-pound sack -- The documentary hypothesis -- Plan to throw one away -- Sharp tools -- The whole and the parts -- Hatching a catastrophe -- The other face -- No silver bulled--essence and accident -- "No silver bullet" refired -- Propositions of The Mythical man-month: true or false? -- The Mythical man-month after 20 years.

    These essays draw from Brooks' 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. -- from publisher description.

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