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| '''''The Mythical Man-Month''''' is a |
'''''The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering''''' is a classic book on ], written by ] to pass on some of the insights he had gained from managing development of ]. Its novel observation was that, unlike some other types of engineering problems, when a project falls behind schedule it doesn't work to add more people. The impact of this observation was so significant that the term "mythical man-month" became a part of the computing lexicon. | ||
| Other significant contributions include a description of the ], and advocacy of ], summed up in the advice "plan to throw one away". | |||
| This is largely due to the idea that while a laborer can be added to the digging of a hole, in software development everyone’s idea, not only of what the hole is, but also the best way to dig it can vary widely and dramatically, leading to the idea that the addition of personnel to a development team will actually cause the schedule to slip more as they are made aware of the particulars of this 'hole' and the method being used by the existing team to 'dig' it. | |||
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The book was first published in ], and republished virtually unchanged (just an addition of a chapter) 20 years later. | ||
| The phrase ''No Silver Bullet'' was coined by Brooks to express his observation that the complexity of developing a large software system has not been reduced dramatically by any methodology of software design. | |||
| Further information should be included on the implementation of string theory | |||
| in the modern technilogical age, look at the world through the eyes of the famous artist ] and his simmilar facination with the perspective of an ant. This is a thread of visual art that can be seen actualized on a different scale through the eyes of the spanish painter, Salvador Dali. There is something out there that the famous postmodern and contemporary styilist of todays visual arts are grasping for that cannot be described with the short commings of our primitive languages. Communication has been best understood visualy and has been for centuries, simply look at the visual sign language of the egyptians, romans, and inca natives that have withstood the test time. | |||
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software engineering, written by Frederick P. Brooks to pass on some of the insights he had gained from managing development of OS/360. Its novel observation was that, unlike some other types of engineering problems, when a project falls behind schedule it doesn't work to add more people. The impact of this observation was so significant that the term "mythical man-month" became a part of the computing lexicon.
Other significant contributions include a description of the second-system effect, and advocacy of prototyping, summed up in the advice "plan to throw one away".
The book was first published in 1975, and republished virtually unchanged (just an addition of a chapter) 20 years later.