The Mythical Man Month
Autor Frederick P. Brooksen Limba Engleză Paperback – 1995
Actualizarea acestei ediții aduce o perspectivă istorică și critică esențială: Frederick P. Brooks revizuiește conceptele care au definit managementul software, incluzând eseul fundamental „No Silver Bullet” și o analiză a valabilității propriilor teze după două decenii. Considerăm că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a extrage principii universale din experiența concretă a dezvoltării sistemului OS/360 la IBM, o perioadă de pionierat care a fixat regulile jocului în ingineria sistemelor.
Abordarea diferă de Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering prin faptul că, în loc să prezinte o listă de fapte și erori, Brooks construiește o argumentație narativă și filozofică despre integritatea conceptuală a produsului. Structura cărții este progresivă, începând cu metafora „mlaștinii de smoală” (The Tar Pit) și avansând spre soluții organizatorice precum „echipa chirurgicală” sau gestionarea comunicării. Un element distinctiv este modul în care autorul tratează „efectul sistemului secund”, avertizând asupra tendinței inginerilor de a supraîncărca a doua versiune a unui produs cu funcționalități inutile.
Credem că analiza despre „omul-lună” — ideea că adăugarea de personal la un proiect întârziat îl va întârzia și mai mult — rămâne piatra de temelie a textului. Spre deosebire de Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, care se concentrează masiv pe dinamica umană și mediul de lucru, The Mythical Man Month pune accent pe designul sistemului și pe modul în care arhitectura software-ului trebuie să reflecte organizarea echipei pentru a menține o unitate coerentă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0201835959
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Prentice Hall
Colecția Pearson Professional
Locul publicării:Boston, United States
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De ce să citești această carte
Pentru orice manager de proiect sau arhitect software, această carte oferă vocabularul necesar pentru a înțelege de ce proiectele complexe tind să eșueze. Veți câștiga o perspectivă realistă asupra limitărilor planificării și veți învăța de ce integritatea conceptuală este mai importantă decât adăugarea constantă de resurse umane. Este o lectură despre strategie, nu doar despre cod.
Despre autor
Frederick P. Brooks (1931–2022) a fost un pionier al informaticii, laureat al Premiului Turing. Cu un doctorat obținut la Harvard sub îndrumarea lui Howard Aiken, Brooks a pus bazele Departamentului de Informatică de la Universitatea din North Carolina la Chapel Hill. Experiența sa definitorie a avut loc la IBM, unde a gestionat dezvoltarea revoluționarului hardware System/360 și a sistemului de operare aferent, OS/360. Această activitate de teren a servit drept laborator pentru observațiile sale despre managementul proiectelor complexe, transformându-l într-una dintre cele mai respectate voci din industria tehnologică globală.
Descriere
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."
Cuprins
1. The Tar Pit.
2. The Mythical Man-Month.
3. The Surgical Team.
4. Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design.
5. The Second-System Effect.
6. Passing the Word.
7. Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail?
8. Calling the Shot.
9. Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack.
10. The Documentary Hypothesis.
11. Plan to Throw One Away.
12. Sharp Tools.
13. The Whole and the Parts.
14. Hatching a Castrophe.
15. The Other Face.
16. No Silver Bullet -- Essence and Accident.
17. "No Silver Bullet" ReFired.
18. Propositions of The Mythical Man-Month: True or False?
19. The Mythical Man-Month After 20 Years.
Epilogue.
Notes and references.
Index. 0201835959T04062001
Notă biografică
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.
At Chapel Hill, Dr. Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science and chaired it from 1964 through 1984. He has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. His current teaching and research is in computer architecture, molecular graphics, and virtual environments.
He joined IBM, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, NY, 1956-1965. He is best known as the "father of the IBM System/360", having served as project manager for its development and later as manager of the Operating System/360 software project during its design phase. For this work he, Bob Evans, and Erick Block were awarded and received a National Medal of Technology in 1985.
Dr. Brooks and Dura Sweeney in 1957 patented a Stretch interrupt system for the IBM Stretch computer that introduced most features of today's interrupt systems. He coined the term computer architecture . His System/360 team first achieved strict compatibility, upward and downward, in a computer family. His early concern for word processing led to his selection of the 8-bit byte and the lowercase alphabet for the System/360, engineering of many new 8-bit input/output devices, and providing a character-string datatype in PL/I.
In 1964 he founded the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years. Currently, he is Kenan Professor of Computer Science. His principal research is in real-time, three-dimensional, computer graphics-"virtual reality." His research has helped biochemists solve the structure of complex molecules and enabled architects to "walk through" buildings still being designed. He is pioneering the use of force display to supplement visual graphics.
Brooks distilled the successes and failures of the development of Operating System/360 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering, (1975). He further examined software engineering in his well-known 1986 paper, "No Silver Bullet." He is just completing a two-volume research monograph, Computer Architecture, with Professor Gerrit Blaauw. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice within The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition.
Brooks has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the IEEE Computer Society's McDowell and Computer Pioneer Awards, the ACM Allen Newell and Distinguished Service Awards, the AFIPS Harry Goode Award, and an honorary Doctor of Technical Science from ETH-Zürich.
Descriere scurtă
Since the first publication of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, no software engineer's bookshelf has been complete without it. Many software engineers and computer scientists have claimed to be on their second or third copy of the book. Now, Addison-Wesley is proud to present the 20th anniversary edition-and first revised edition ever-of Fred Brooks's now legendary collection of essays on the management of computer programming projects. The 20th Anniversary edition is an updated, enhanced re-release of the Brooks classic. Included are all of the existing essays that were originally presented, with the addition of three new essays assessing the current status of software project management. Brooks's well-known 1986 article, No Silver Bullet, is also included. This 20th Anniversary edition is a major event in computer publishing.