...httø://www.itstime.com/feb97a.htm • Anthony's Law of Force - Don't force it, get a larger hammer. • Brooks' Law - Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. • Cann's Axiom - When all else fails, read the instructions. • Clarke's Third Law - Any sufficiently...

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...scale (Banker and Kemerer, 1989: 416-429). The IBM OS/360 project, for example, spawned what is known as Brooks' law: “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” (Brooks, 1975: 25). Exacerbating these difficulties of scheduling and coordination is the need to manage...

...Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1974, Fred Brooks captured his experience in what he called Brooks Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." 4 Our theory of how designs become modular, described in chapters 3 and 5, sheds light on IBM's experience...

...program. bronze An alloy consisting primarily of copper with tin and occasionally other elements added. Brooks' law Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. From Frederick P. Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month, a much-quoted provocative book about the...

...knowledgeable and respected former IBM system architect, offers a refreshing perspective, including Brooks' Law ("Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later") and "All repairs tend to destroy structure, to increase the entropy and disorder of a system," a point...

...for large software projects way back in 1975 when Frederick Brooks published The Mythical Man Month (Brooks law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.") and Figure 15.1 clearly shows that this project-management strategy is no longer effective for SOC...

...increasingly detailed, parts. Versions were subsequently accepted as ISO Standards 17799, 27001, and 27002. Brooks' Law "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later," a result of the fact that the advantage from splitting work among N programmers is expected to be proportional...