21 May 2020 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 14 December 2021“No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” is a famous paper written by Fred Brooks in 1986 that focuses on the difficulties inherent in developing software. The essence of the paper is summarized by the quote at the start: There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. With his hypothesis further elaborated close to the beginning of the paper: Not only are there no silver bullets …
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