No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
@article{Brooks1987NoSB, title={No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering}, author={F. Brooks}, journal={Computer}, year={1987}, volume={20}, pages={10-19} }
But, as we look to the horizon of a decade hence, we see no silver bullet. There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. In this article, I shall try to show why, by examining both the nature of the software problem and the properties of the bullets proposed.
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