Further Reading
Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995. This book contains the essays, "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" and "No Silver Bullet Refired." The first title is Brooks' famous essay reprinted from the April 1987 issue of Computer magazine. Brooks argues that there will not be, and more important, that there cannot be, any single new practice capable of producing an order-of-magnitude reduction in the effort required to build a software system within the 10 year period that started in 1986. "No Silver Bullet Refired" is a reexamination 9 years later of the claims made in the earlier essay.
Glass, Robert L. "What Are the Realities of Software ...
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