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In one of the most influential books of this era, The Mythical Man-month, Dr. Fred Brooks observed that adding more people to a late software project only seems to make matters worse. And in an equally influential article, No Silver Bullet; Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, he argued that the difficulties are inevitable, arising from software's inescapable essence, as distinct from accident; something we're doing wrong in producing it.
This article was triggered by those of Brooks and Parnas. It is not a rebuttal. Indeed, I agree with most of the specific points made in both papers. Instead, the goal of this article is to illuminate the brighter side of the coin, emphasizing developments in the field that were too recent or immature to have influenced Brooks and Parnas when they wrote their manuscripts.
In one of the most influential books of this era, The Mythical Man-month, Dr. Fred Brooks observed that adding more people to a late software project only seems to make matters worse. And in an equally influential article, No Silver Bullet; Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, he argued that the difficulties are inevitable, arising from software's inescapable essence, as distinct from accident; something we're doing wrong in producing it.
This article was triggered by those of Brooks and Parnas. It is not a rebuttal. Indeed, I agree with most of the specific points made in both papers. Instead, the goal of this article is to illuminate the brighter side of the coin, emphasizing developments in the field that were too recent or immature to have influenced Brooks and Parnas when they wrote their manuscripts.
