The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 336 pages

Publisher:Pearson Education Limited

Imprint:Addison Wesley

Edition:2 ed

ISBN:9780201835953

Published:2 Aug 1995

Classifications:Software Engineering, Systems analysis & design

Readership:Tertiary Education (US: College)

Weight:468g

Dimensions:156 x 233 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在软件领域，很少能有像《人月神话》一样具有深远影响力和畅销不衰的著作。Brooks博士为人们管理复杂项目提供了最具洞察力的见解，既有很多发人深省的观点，又有大量软件工程的实践。本书内容来自Brooks博士在IBM公司SYSTEM/360家族和OS/360中的项目管理经验，该项目堪称软件开发项目管理的典范。该书英文原版一经面世，即引起业内人士的强烈反响，后又译为多种文字，全球销售数百万册。确立了其在行业内的经典地位。

本书读者包括：软件开发人员、软件项目经理、系统分析师等IT从业者。

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years."

目录

1. The Tar Pit.

2. The Mythical Man-Month.

3. The Surgical Team.

4. Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design.

5. The Second-System Effect.

6. Passing the Word.

7. Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail?

8. Calling the Shot.

9. Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack.

10. The Documentary Hypothesis.

11. Plan to Throw One Away.

12. Sharp Tools.

13. The Whole and the Parts.

14. Hatching a Castrophe.

15. The Other Face.

16. No Silver Bullet -- Essence and Accident.

17. "No Silver Bullet" ReFired.

18. Propositions of The Mythical Man-Month: True or False?

19. The Mythical Man-Month After 20 Years.

Epilogue.

Notes and references.

Index.

作者简介

小弗雷德里克·布鲁克斯曾获得美国计算机领域最具声望的图灵奖(A. M. Turing Award)。美国计算机协会(ACM)称赞他“对计算机体系结构、操作系统和软件工程做出了里程碑式的贡献”。

布鲁克斯博士1956年开始任职于IBM公司，早期担任Stretch 和Harvest计算机的体系建构师。他被认为是“IBM 360系统之父”，曾担任360系统的项目经理。凭借在此项目中的杰出贡献，他与Bob Evans和Erich Bloch在1985年获得了美国国家技术奖(National Medal of Technology)。

布鲁克斯博士创立了北卡罗来纳大学的计算机科学系，并于1965-1985年担任系主任。他还曾任职于美国国家科技局和国防科学技术委员会。目前其仍活跃于从事虚拟环境和科学可视化等方面的研究工作，2010年获得虚拟现实事业奖(IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award)。

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.

At Chapel Hill, Dr. Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science and chaired it from 1964 through 1984. He has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. His current teaching and research is in computer architecture, molecular graphics, and virtual environments.

He joined IBM, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, NY, 1956-1965. He is best known as the "father of the IBM System/360", having served as project manager for its development and later as manager of the Operating System/360 software project during its design phase. For this work he, Bob Evans, and Erick Block were awarded and received a National Medal of Technology in 1985.

Dr. Brooks and Dura Sweeney in 1957 patented a Stretch interrupt system for the IBM Stretch computer that introduced most features of today's interrupt systems. He coined the term computer architecture . His System/360 team first achieved strict compatibility, upward and downward, in a computer family. His early concern for word processing led to his selection of the 8-bit byte and the lowercase alphabet for the System/360, engineering of many new 8-bit input/output devices, and providing a character-string datatype in PL/I.

In 1964 he founded the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years. Currently, he is Kenan Professor of Computer Science. His principal research is in real-time, three-dimensional, computer graphics-"virtual reality." His research has helped biochemists solve the structure of complex molecules and enabled architects to "walk through" buildings still being designed. He is pioneering the use of force display to supplement visual graphics.

Brooks distilled the successes and failures of the development of Operating System/360 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering, (1975). He further examined software engineering in his well-known 1986 paper, "No Silver Bullet." He is just completing a two-volume research monograph, Computer Architecture, with Professor Gerrit Blaauw. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice within The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition.

Brooks has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the IEEE Computer Society's McDowell and Computer Pioneer Awards, the ACM Allen Newell and Distinguished Service Awards, the AFIPS Harry Goode Award, and an honorary Doctor of Technical Science from ETH-Zurich.