Software Engineering Publications - The Mythical Man-Month, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Mil-Std-498, Mil-Std-2167 (Paperback)

Chapters: The Mythical Man-Month, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Mil-Std-498, Mil-Std-2167, Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer, Ieee Software, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Ieee Transactions on Software Engineering, the Practice of Programming, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Software Engineering Notes, Programming Pearls. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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's law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping. Brooks's observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had mistakenly added more workers to a project falling behind schedule. 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 as an anniversary edition with four extra chapters in 1995 (ISBN 0-201-83595-9) with the essay No Silver Bullet and commentary by the author. Assi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3134