August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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Software architecture is not a silver bullet
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks is one of the seminal texts in software project management. It contains various essays on software engineering. Although this book was written some time ago, and some of the references are now outdated, it provides thought-provoking advice about software development that is timeless and still applicable today:
"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
Fred Brooks 1986 essay, No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering, which is included in the twentieth anniversary ...