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  2. The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia

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    Brooks discusses several causes of scheduling failures. The most enduring is his discussion of Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Man-month is a hypothetical unit of work representing the work done by one person in one month; Brooks's law says that the possibility of measuring useful work in man-months is a myth, and is hence the centerpiece of the book.

  3. Brooks's law - Wikipedia

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    Brooks's law is an observation about software project management that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." [1] [2] It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. According to Brooks, under certain conditions, an incremental person when added to a project makes it take more, not less time.

  4. Software crisis - Wikipedia

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    Software crisis is a term used in the early days of computing science for the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time. The software crisis was due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems that could be tackled.

  5. Debunking Startup Myths With the Founders of AppArmor - AOL

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    Myth #2: A niche product idea doesn’t always pay off. Reality: The opposite is often true. Sometimes a niche market needs a product that solves a problem really well, according to the Sinkinsons.

  6. Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia

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    The list of fallacies originated at Sun Microsystems. L. Peter Deutsch, one of the original Sun "Fellows", first created a list of seven fallacies in 1994; incorporating four fallacies Bill Joy and Dave Lyon had already identified in "The Fallacies of Networked Computing". [2]

  7. Software evolution - Wikipedia

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    Software evolution is not likely to be Darwinian, Lamarckian or Baldwinian, but an important phenomenon on its own. Given the increasing dependence on software at all levels of society and economy, the successful evolution of software is becoming increasingly critical. This is an important topic of research that hasn't received much attention.

  8. History of software engineering - Wikipedia

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    The software crisis was originally defined in terms of productivity, but evolved to emphasize quality. Some used the term software crisis to refer to their inability to hire enough qualified programmers. [citation needed] Cost and Budget Overruns: The OS/360 operating system was a classic example.

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    Interactive maps, databases and real-time graphics from The Huffington Post