The mythical man-month : essays on software engineering / Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1995.Edition: Anniversary edDescription: xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0201835959
- 9780201835953
- QA76.758 .B75 1995
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Anniversary ed. has four new chapters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.