Mythical Man Month
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The Mythical Man-Month Report
As we are living in the twenty first century, computers are essential to our daily life activities. We use computers to pay our bills online, book a vacation trip, or just listen to music that is stored in some memory location within the computer. All the things which a computer could do to enhance our lives are based on software which are installed on a particular computer. Software applications are the features that allow users to maximize the usage of computers because without applications, a computer is just a bookshelf with no books. In this book, "The Mythical Man-Month", the author Frederick P. Brooks has used his twenty years of experience in the software industry to help us understand the definition of software engineering, the potential downfalls in the software creation process, and solutions on how to avoid such problems.
To an average computer user, software engineering is a field which is filled with a lot of technical terms, rules, syntax, and programming logics help to create a software application. These assumptions are faults according to Brooks. He claims that software engineering is an art. Because of the very nature of art, software engineering requires creativity, hard work in perfecting the craft, time and communicating in order to produce a workable piece of software...