Brooks,Jr.Frederick P.

The Mythical Man-Month

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    the benefits Pius XI predicted: the center gains in real authority by delegating power, and
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    Especially noteworthy is his comment that new people added late in a development project must be team players willing to pitch in and work within the process, and not attempt to alter or improve the process itself!
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    How true is Brooks's Law
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    I dismissed Parnas's concept as a "recipe for disaster" in Chapter 7. Parnas was right, and I was wrong. I am now convinced that information hiding, today often embodied in object-oriented programming, is the only way of raising the level of software design.
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    Rather less familiar, but very important, is Parnas's concept of designing a software product as a family of related products.11 He urges the designer to anticipate both lateral extensions and succeeding versions of a product, and to define their function or platform differences so as to construct a family tree of related products (Fig 19.3).
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    After every function works at a primitive level, we refine or rewrite first one module and then another, incrementally growing the system.
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    The basic fallacy of the waterfall model is that it assumes a project goes through the process once, that the architecture is excellent and easy to use, the implementation design is sound, and the realization is fixable as testing proceeds.
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    Purpose is the key to understanding; even high-level language syntax does not at all convey purpose.
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    Limited evidence shows that interactive programming at least doubles productivity in system programming
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    The project manager's chief daily task is communication, not decision-making; the documents communicate the plans and decisions to the whole team
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