Joel Uckelman on 10 Aug 2001 06:33:45 -0000 |
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Re: hosers-talk: Fred Brooks, Turing Award Winner |
Quoth "Jon Stewart": > So Amazon delivered _Brilliant Corners_ and _The Mythical Man Month_ (20th > anniversary ed.) to my door yesterday and I finished TMMM around noon > today (making it onto the very exclusive Books Jon Stewart Has Actually > *Finished* list). > > It was a good book, a fast read. Not, perhaps, the revelatory screed > everyone gushes about, but I'd read so many reviews about it that I knew a > great deal about it beforehand. There were a number of very good ideas > and, using very simple mathematics and some graphs (and very little Greek > symbols; Brooks is my man), presented some stark evidence for why the > software process can be so crappy. So, why can the software process be so crappy? And why is a "man month" mythical? -- J.