No Silver Bullet
Sign in to save1986 essay by Frederick Brooks distinguishing essential complexity from accidental complexity in software engineering
Paper
520 citationsTL;DRThis article shall try to show why there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
F. Brooks
Computer · 1987
Computer ScienceEngineering
17 influential citations
via Semantic Scholar · Unpaywall
Wikidata facts
- Author
- Fred Brooks
- Follows
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Main subject
- software project management
Show 2 more facts
- publication date
- 1986-00-00
- published in
- Computer
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0