The Mythical Man-Month

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Название: The Mythical Man-Month

Автор:Brooks Frederick Phillips

Издательство: Addison Wesley

Год: 1995

Страниц: 322

Язык: English

Формат: pdf

Размер: 19,3 Mb

Эта книга - юбилейное (дополненное и исправленное) издание своего рода библии для разработчиков программного обеспечения во всем мире, написанное Бруксом еще в 1975 году. Тогда же книга была издана на русском языке и давно уже стала библиографической редкостью. В США полагают, что без прочтения книги Брукса не может состояться ни один крупный руководитель программного проекта.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.

Brooks' observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later conclude had, counter-intuitively, delayed the project even further. He also made the mistake of asserting that one project — writing an ALGOL compiler — would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (it required longer). The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called "The Bible of Software Engineering", because "everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it". The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering.

The work was first published in 1975 (ISBN 0-201-00650-2), reprinted with corrections in 1982, and republished in an anniversary edition with four extra chapters in 1995 (ISBN 0-201-83595-9), including a reprint of the essay "No Silver Bullet" with commentary by the author.