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Re: IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Development

You seem to have a much better memory than I, Chris, but I do remember that it was "must" reading when I started 30+ years ago.
If I do recall correctly (too many gray cells have bitten the dust at CUDS), his primary point (and thus the title) was that they tried to speak up the project by throwing more bodies at it. Apparently there's this thing called "diminishing returns." 


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Chris Payne wrote:


Are you talking about the Mythical Man Month? It's a great book, and
much of what was written years and years ago is still very accurate. Two
rather funny points, in one section he says that modularization is a
fad, and he does not thing it will work well (If you get a more recent
version he has an addendum where he states that history has show him to
be incorrect on that point) and the other is that he encourages you to
use a high level language instead of writing all of your code in
assembly, which I don't think is a decision that many of us are
considering any more. Apart from those two points it really does have a
great deal of good information.

Chris

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Subject: IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Devlopment

I've read about an IBM "Bible" of Product/Project Development written by
one of the heads of the project team for development for OS36, etc.
Does anyone recall the title, author, etc.?

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