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[The Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software Engineering] (By: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.) [published: August, 1995] Paperback – 2 Aug. 1995

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (2 Aug. 1995)
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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an architect of the IBM Stretch and Harvest computers. He was Corporate Project Manager for the System/360, including development of the System/360 computer family hardware and the decision to switch computer byte size from 6 to 8 bits. He then managed the initial development of the Operating System/360 software suite: operating system, 16 compilers, communications, and utilities.

He founded the UNC Department of Computer Science in 1964 and chaired it for 20 years. His research there has been in computer architecture, software engineering, and interactive 3-D computer graphics (protein visualization graphics and "virtual reality"). His best-known books are The Mythical Man-Month (1975, 1995); Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution (with G.A. Blaauw, 1997); and The Design of Design (2010).

Dr. Brooks has received the National Medal of Technology, the A.M. Turing award of the ACM, the Bower Award and Prize of the Franklin Institute, the John von Neumann Medal of the IEEE, and others. He is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Engineering and of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He became a Christian at age 31 and has taught an adult Sunday school class for 35 years. He chaired the Executive Committee for the 1973 Research Triangle Billy Graham Crusade. He and Mrs. Nancy Greenwood Brooks are faculty advisors to a graduate student chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. They have three children and nine grandchildren.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Brilliant - Why Have We Ignored It For So Long
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    This book is amazing, not just because of the astute observations Fred Brooks draws from experiences on projects he worked on, but also because we're still making the same mistakes so many decades later. Asides for a recommendation to move to microfiche, which indicates how long ago this book was written (and it was a fair suggestion at the time), this book is pure gold.
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  • Book Glutton
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good, undying, informative, inspiring and enjoyable read!
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    I learned by my own mistakes the meaning of the expression, "You can pay me now or pay me later." There are few or sometimes no short-cuts in software or hardware development or engineering, or electronics in general. Fred Brooks, best known as the "father of the IBM System 360," and after 30 years still holds the title of the most influential book on software project management, likened it to pregnancy. He said you can add all the women you want "to the project" and still, it will take nine months! That's why, in managing software development projects, I learned to spend ample time with the software developers beforehand. Otherwise, I would inevitably spend the time with them afterwards. I was the one knowing the design. I had the "big picture" that needed to be communicated to them.

    In his book, Brooks described the foibles of the early design teams and programming at IBM. From his own mistakes, he came up with snappy principles like "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you find time to do it over?" He also coined what became known as the "Second-System Approach," which basically said "by the time you finish developing a system, you know what you should have done"--therefore, throw it away and start from scratch again. He identified the corruptible optimism of good intentions that truly but erroneously believed, for most of the project, that the work was 90% done or that debugging was 99% done most of the time. He insisted, "Ask whenever there's a doubt. NEVER assume anything."

    This book is filled with timeless development advice by a master from a previous age. The advice, however, is as valuable now as it was then.

    A good, undying, informative, inspiring and enjoyable read!
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  • Jack
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    Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2017
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    A fantastic read; the examples are a little dated but the message is exemplary and relevant. Frankly, this might be the most excellent piece of software engineering literature in existence.

    It is dense, every sentence is necessary and relevant. The allusions, metaphors, and examples all help to paint and SHOW not TELL the author's ideas.

    A cross between literary masterpiece and dialogue about software engineering, this novel will stand the test of time.
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  • Steven Willett
    5.0 out of 5 stars IBM history, I will take a bit of that please.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2015
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    Fantastic quality and for its age it puts all photoshopping of women in magazines etc. to shame.

    This book was recommended to me by a colleague and on quick skim I think that this will be an interesting read.
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