Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. - Fred Brooks

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Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was a computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, most famous for managing the development of IBM's System/360 Computer family hardware and then OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards.

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Birth Name: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. • Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr • Frederick P. Brooks • Frederick Phillips
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity […] because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: […] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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