• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975...
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    Fred Brooks (category 1994 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
    book The Mythical Man-Month. In 1976, Brooks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development...
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    value The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks' classic book on software engineering Time and motion study Frederick Winslow Taylor "Definition from the Merriam-Webster...
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  • it, "'No Silver Bullet' Refired", can be found in the anniversary edition of The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks's paper has sometimes been cited in connection...
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  • documentation. The Mythical Man-Month Minimum viable product Product manager Software as a service Brooks, Fred P. (1995). The Mythical Man Month (Anniversary ed...
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  • overconfidence. The phrase was first used by Fred Brooks in his book The Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1975. It described the jump from a set...
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  • television channel McKenna Mendelson Mainline, a Canadian blues quartet The Mythical Man-Month (MM-M), a project management book Triple M (MMM), radio network...
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  • makes it later." It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. According to Brooks, under certain conditions, an incremental person...
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  • Hofstadter's Law. The law is often cited by programmers in discussions of techniques to improve productivity, such as The Mythical Man-Month or extreme programming...
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    titles include The Art of Computer Programming, The C++ Programming Language, The Mythical Man-Month, and Design Patterns. Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne...
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  • pp. 2–5. The Workplace Stack Exchange 2022. Rodenas 2022. Grams 2019. Fowler & Beck 2013. Brooks, Frederick P. (2013). The mythical man-month: essays on...
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  • problems. The book combines narrative with explanations of software development philosophy, methodology, and process, referring to The Mythical Man-Month and...
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    a term introduced by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month to denote the idea that the architecture of a software system represents an overall...
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  • for a unit test is as likely to be buggy as the code it is testing. Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month quotes: "Never go to sea with two chronometers;...
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  • writing the Mythical Man Month, an influential book in software project management, who advocated planning to "throw one away"), and involving the customer...
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  • available and the OS/360 project fell further and further behind schedule, as described at length by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. IBM was forced...
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  • science) Conceptual clustering The Mythical Man-Month (Conceptual integrity) Conceptual system Conceptual framework The Conceptual Framework Entity–relationship...
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  • a now commonly used POS tagger based on transformation-based learning. Manning, Christopher D.; Schütze, Hinrich (1999), Foundation of Statistical Natural...
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  • away; you will, anyhow (copied from Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month). If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. When...
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    book The Mythical Man-Month and was described as "seminal" in the ACM's brief biography of Wirth published in connection to his Turing Award. The 1973...
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  • Brooks, The Mythical Man Month, p. 122 Regression tests can be broadly categorized as functional tests or unit tests. Functional tests exercise the complete...
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  • poker Escalation of commitment Instruction creep Mission creep The Mythical Man-Month Second-system effect Software bloat Lewis, James (2002). Fundamentals...
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    from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Brooks, F.P. (1975). The Mythical Man-Month. Reading...
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  • the root of large project failures – it is our[whose?] understanding and communication of the overall requirement (as identified in The Mythical Man Month)...
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  • Innovation and Open Source:Actors in the Network" — First Monday article by Ilkka Tuomi (2000) source The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks, about project management...
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    Retrieved 26 November 2022. Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.) (1975). The Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company...
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  • reduced quality (as per The Mythical Man-Month principle). With timeboxing, the deadline is fixed, meaning that the scope would have to be reduced. As this...
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  • six new chapters, but the original content has also been updated. Peopleware as a more general concept. The Mythical Man-Month DeMarco, Tom; Lister, Tim...
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    goals. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1982, pp. 93–94 Dijkstra, Edsger W. On the foolishness of "natural language programming...
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  • Fred Brooks, in his key book The Mythical Man-Month, states that over 90% of the costs of a typical system arise in the maintenance phase, and that any...
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