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Article #13156Re: Mythical Man-Month (was: Architect's Trap)
From: Hal Perkins
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 15:14
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 15:14
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Since Brooks's Mythical Man-Month book has come up here, I thought the following might be of interest. Quoted from the essay "People Are Our Most Important Product", Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., in Software Engineering Education, Gibbs and Fairley eds., Springer-Verlag, 1987: The peak year in sales for The Mythical Man-Month was only two years ago. Yet the book was written in 1975, about an experience in 1963-65. The fact that it has the slightest relevance now is a sad comment on the progress of the discipline. (I suggest that further discussions of this be moved to somewhere suitable for software engineering topics, not net.arch.) Hal Perkins Cornell CS
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!gvax!hal From: hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mythical Man-Month (was: Architect's Trap) Message-ID: <743@gvax.cs.cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 10:14:06 EST Article-I.D.: gvax.743 Posted: Thu Mar 5 10:14:06 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 00:48:52 EST References: <1400@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <101200003@datacube> <522@ames.UUCP> Reply-To: hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 16