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The Mythical Man-Month - College of Computing & Informatics
2 The Mythical Man-Month2 The Mythical Man-MonthGood cooking fakes time. If you are made to wait, it is toserve you better, and to please OF RESTAURANT ANTOINE. NEW ORLEANS1314 The Mythical Man-MonthMore software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar timethan for all other causes combined. Why is this cause of disasterso common?First, our techniques of estimating are poorly developed. Moreseriously, they reflect an unvoiced assumption which is quite un-true, , that all will go , our estimating techniques fallaciously confuse effortwith progress, hiding the assumption that men and months , because we are uncertain of our estimates, softwaremanagers often lack the courteous stubbornness of Antoine's , schedule progress is poorly monitored. Techniquesproven and routine in other engineering disciplines are consideredradical innovations in software , when schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (andtraditional) response is to add manpower.
l/4 system test, all components in hand. This differs from conventional scheduling in several important ways: 1. The fraction devoted to planning is larger than normal. Even so, it is barely enough to produce a detailed and solid specifi-cation, and not enough to include research or exploration of totally new techniques. 2.
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