Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Mythical Man-Month Ch 18 -19

Reference Information:

Title: The Mythical Man-Month
Author: Fredrick P. Brooks, JR.

Summary:
The first chapter in this reading is simply a rehash of all the information in the authors previous book that he still finds to be true. The author has also made brackets in order to encapsulate any new information. In the next chapter, the author discusses things that were wrong in his old book. A few examples of this are his discussions on information hiding and the waterfall model.


Discussion:
I was rather disappointed in these chapters as they did not offer nearly as much new information as I would have liked. To be honest I found it difficult to even create a full blog based on how repetitive the information he gives is to the rest of the book. However, given that this is the last blog on this book I must say that it was defiantly a good book and I am glad we got to read it.