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    1.1 Brooks, Humphrey, Weinberg, Davis, and McConnel

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    by Alexis Leon, Comments Off on 1.1 Brooks, Humphrey, Weinberg, Davis, and McConnel

    What have Frederick Brooks, Watts Humphrey, Gerald Weinberg, Alan Davis, and Steve McConnell, in common? They are all authors of bestselling books that have transformed the software profession.

    Brooks is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book “The Mythical Man-Month.” Mythical Man-Month changed the way software was developed and Brooks’s law became one of the most important laws of software project management and Brooks became a cult figure in the software engineering field.

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