Abstract:
In 1975, Fredrick Brooks wrote an amazing book, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering [1]. The book applies to managing engineering, not just software. B...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
In 1975, Fredrick Brooks wrote an amazing book, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering [1]. The book applies to managing engineering, not just software. Brooks got his experience the hard way: he managed the development of IBM?s OS/360. At that time in history, in the mid-1960s, it was the largest software project ever attempted. In the 1990s, I worked on several versions of Microsoft Windows, which were even larger. Brooks? writing was directly applicable.
Published in: IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine ( Volume: 5, Issue: 1, January 2016)
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