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Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.

How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.

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Fred Brooks

The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.

Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.

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those software systems that have excited passionate fans are…the products of one or a few…great designers.

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

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Fred Brooks

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

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

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Fred Brooks

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

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Fred Brooks

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time.

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.