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A Unified Theory of Software Evolution

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

jso888 writes "Salon has a nice article today on Meir Lehman's work on how software evolves and is developed. Lehman's investigation of the IBM OS/360 development process became the foundation for Brooks' Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." He is hopeful that his work will make software development less of an art and more of an engineering science."

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  1. Re:Can We Say... by Surak · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mythical Man Month???

    A little wine with my dinner so I'm the grape ape!

    This is a Planet of the Apes reference in case nobody noticed.

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