Project Management quotes

Fred Brooks

Brooks' Law

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 2, page 25. Known as Brooks' Law.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Brooks_Law

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Keywords: Project_quotes Project_Management_quotes Schedule_quotes Software_Engineering_quotes Software_Management_quotes Human_Resources_quotes Law_quotes Management_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Human_quotes Resource_quotes Make_quotes Late_quotes

Throw One Away

“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 11, page 116.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Throw_One_Away

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Keywords: Project_quotes Project_Management_quotes Software_Engineering_quotes Software_Management_quotes Failure_quotes Management_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Plan_quotes Throw_quotes Away_quotes One_quotes

Specification Hard

“Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 195.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Specification_Hard

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Keywords: Specification_quotes Requirements_quotes Verification_quotes Debugging_quotes Project_quotes Project_Management_quotes Software_quotes Software_Management_quotes Perfect_quotes Program_quotes Establish_quotes Hard_quotes Difficult_quotes Task_quotes Management_quotes Arrive_quotes Complete_quotes Consistent_quotes Essence_quotes Build_quotes Fact_quotes Debug_quotes

People Central

“The central question of how to improve the software art centers, as it always has, on people.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 202.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/People_Central

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Keywords: Human_Resources_quotes People_quotes Software_quotes Software_Management_quotes Quality_quotes Software_Quality_quotes Project_Management_quotes Art_quotes Central_quotes Question_quotes Improve_quotes Human_quotes

Productivity Magnitude

“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, cleaner, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 202.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Productivity_Magnitude

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Keywords: Design_quotes People_quotes Software_quotes Productivity_quotes Quality_quotes Software_Quality_quotes Project_Management_quotes Excellence_quotes Study_quotes Designer_quotes Produce_quotes Structure_quotes Fast_quotes Simple_quotes Small_quotes Clean_quotes Effort_quotes Project_quotes Management_quotes Difference_quotes Great_quotes Average_quotes Order_quotes Magnitude_quotes

Great Designers

“A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built by multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 202.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Great_Designers

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Keywords: Design_quotes People_quotes Software_quotes Quality_quotes Software_Quality_quotes Project_Management_quotes Excellence_quotes Software_Management_quotes Retrospection_quotes Fine_quotes Useful_quotes System_quotes Committee_quotes Build_quotes Multipart_quotes Excited_quotes Passionate_quotes Fan_quotes Product_quotes One_quotes Few_quotes Mind_quotes Great_quotes Designer_quotes Management_quotes

Grow Not Build Software

“Grow, not build software... The building metaphor has outlived its usefulness.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 200.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Grow_Not_Build_Software

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Keywords: Software_quotes Incremental_quotes Agile_quotes Project_Management_quotes Software_Management_quotes Metaphor_quotes Build_quotes Grow_quotes Outlive_quotes Useful_quotes Management_quotes

Child Bearing Task Law

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.”

• Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 2, page 17.

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  • Fred_Brooks_quotes
  • Fred_Brooks_quotes/Child_Bearing_Task_Law

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Keywords: Child_Bearing_quotes Human_Resources_quotes Programming_quotes Programmer_quotes Productivity_quotes Project_Management_quotes Software_quotes Debugging_quotes Sequential_quotes Law_quotes Bearing_quotes Child_quotes Month_quotes Women_quotes Assign_quotes Management_quotes Task_quotes Characteristic_quotes Nature_quotes

Alexander d'Agapeyeff

Programmer Platoons

"In my experience programmers are rather difficult to shove around like platoons in the army."

• Source: Alexander d'Agapeyeff in a report entitled “Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee”. Chaired by Friedrich Ludwig Bauer. Edited by P. Naur; B. Randell. Conference held 1968-10-07 through 1968-10-11 in Garmisch, Germany. OCLC: 35337842. See http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/index.html; http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020; https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_engineering.html?id=Uc9QAAAAYAAJ. Page 50.

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  • Alexander_dAgapeyeff_quotes
  • Alexander_dAgapeyeff_quotes/Programmer_Platoons

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Keywords: Programmer_quotes Management_quotes Software_Management_quotes Project_Management_quotes Platoon_quotes Conformity_quotes Experience_quotes Difficult_quotes Shove_quotes Army_quotes

Capers_Jones

Quality Software

“High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.”

• Source: The Economics of Software Quality by Capers Jones and Oliver Bonsignour, 2011, chapter 7.

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  • Capers_Jones_quotes
  • Capers_Jones_quotes/Quality_Software

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Keywords: Quality_quotes Software_quotes Software_Engineering_quotes Cost_quotes Fast_quotes Project_Management_quotes Expensive_quotes Cheap_quotes Maintain_quotes Development_quotes Total_quotes Ownership_quotes