Short description
With a blend of software engineering facts and personal opinions, this book offers insight and direction for anyone involved in building complex computer systems. this edition includes two new essays assessing the current status of software project management.
Long description
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) todays thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years."