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No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" is a widely discussed paper on software engineering written by Turing Award winner Fred Brooks in 1986. Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement ...

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) Fred Brooks passed away on November 17. He was a giant in computer science and a tremendous inspiration to many of us. Brooks is famous for many things. Many people know him best as the author of The Mythical Man-Month, his musings on software engineering and why it’s so ...

Frederick Brooks, the famed computer architect who discovered the software tar pit and designed OS/360, died Thursday. He also debunked the concept of the Mythical Man-Month in his book, writing: "Adding manpower to software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer."

F. Brooks: No Silver Bullet—Essence and accident in software engineering (1986) 2. The familiar software project has something of this character (at least as seen by the non-technical manager), usually innocent and straightforward, but capable of becoming a monster of missed schedules, blown budgets, and flawed products.

Fred Brooks Jr., an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM’s System/360 family of computers, died on November 17, 2022, at the age of 91. Details about his death have not been revealed. He also developed OS/360 software support package, then later wrote candidly ...

Best. Add a Comment. kitd • 5 mo. ago. At IBM in the 1960s, Brooks managed the System/360 and OS/360 projects, the backbone of the mainframe era. His experiences were captured in a series of seminal essays, later published in "The Mythical Man Month", a must-read for software engineers.