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No Silver Bullet (Fred Brooks)

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No Silver Bullet (Fred Brooks)

A Papers We Love presentation on Fred Brooks' "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering".
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March 30, 2020
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Transcript

  1. FREDERICK P. BROOKS, JR. NO SILVER BULLET

  2. SILVER BULLET

  3. ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IMPROVEMENT SILVER BULLET

  4. HARDWARE SOFTWARE

  5. NO SILVER BULLET PREDICTION

  6. ACCIDENT ESSENCE

  7. ESSENCE FASHIONING CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES

  8. ACCIDENT REPRESENTATION WITHIN CONSTRAINTS OF SPACE AND TIME

  9. IDEAL ESSENCE

  10. ACCIDENT REAL

  11. SOUL ESSENCE

  12. ACCIDENT BODY

  13. ACCIDENT ESSENCE

  14. ACCIDENT ESSENCE

  15. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL?

  16. THE SPECIFICATION, DESIGN AND TESTING OF A CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

  17. COMPLEXITY

  18. CONFORMITY

  19. CHANGEABILITY

  20. INVISIBILITY

  21. SOLVED ACCIDENTAL DIFFICULTIES PAST BREAKTHROUGHS

  22. HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGES

  23. TIME-SHARING

  24. UNIFIED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS

  25. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS HOPES FOR SILVER

  26. ADA

  27. OOP

  28. AI

  29. AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING

  30. GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING

  31. PROGRAM VERIFICATION

  32. ENVIRONMENTS AND TOOLS

  33. WORKSTATIONS

  34. PROMISING ATTACKS CONCEPTUAL ESSENCE

  35. BUY VS BUILD

  36. RAPID PROTOTYPING

  37. GROW, NOT BUILD

  38. GREAT DESIGNERS