✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

No Silver Bullet

en.wikipedia.org · 846 words · saved by 1 readers

"No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" is a paper on software engineering written by Fred Brooks in 1986. Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." He also states that "we cannot expect ever to see two-fold gains every two years" in software development, as there is in hardware development (Moore's law).

No Silver Bullet - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1986 paper on software project management For the folkloric belief, see Silver bullet . " No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering " is a paper on software engineering written by Fred Brooks in 1986. [ 1 ] Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." He also states that "we cannot expect ever to see tw

Explore this link on the map →

related reading