The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2/e (Paperback)

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

 

The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years."

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《神話般的人月》是一本對軟體專案管理影響深遠且具有永恆價值的書籍。弗雷德·布魯克斯以軟體工程事實和發人深省的觀點相結合,為任何管理複雜專案的人提供了洞察力。這些文章源於他在IBM System/360計算機系列和其龐大的軟體系統OS/360的專案經理經驗。現在,在他的書籍首次出版20年後,布魯克斯重新審視了他最初的想法,並為那些已經熟悉他的作品的讀者和首次接觸他作品的讀者提供了新的思考和建議。

新增的章節包括:(1)對原書中所有主張的簡明概括,包括布魯克斯在《神話般的人月》中的核心論點,即大型程式專案因勞動分工而面臨與小型專案不同的管理問題;產品的概念完整性因此至關重要;實現這種統一雖然困難但是可能;(2)布魯克斯對這些主張的一代人後的看法;(3)他經典的1986年論文《沒有銀彈》的再版;以及(4)對1986年的斷言「十年內不會有銀彈」的今日思考。