"(The Chief Programmer) personally defines the functional and performance
specifications, designs the program, codes it, tests it, and writes its
documentation... He needs great talent, ten years experience and
considerable systems and applications knowledge, whether in applied
mathematics, business data handling, or whatever."
-- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
specifications, designs the program, codes it, tests it, and writes its
documentation... He needs great talent, ten years experience and
considerable systems and applications knowledge, whether in applied
mathematics, business data handling, or whatever."
-- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
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Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man... - An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does... - The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man... - I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important
consideration in system design.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man... - Plan to throw one away. You will anyway.
-- Frederick P.
Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man... - The management question, therefore, is not WHETHER to build a pilot
system and throw it away.
You WILL do that. The question is whether to plan in... - The hypothesis:
Amid a wash of paper, a small number of documents become the critical pivots
around which every project's management revolves.
These are the manager's chief personal tools. - Frederick...
