Fredrick Brooks’ famous article, “There is No Silver Bullet”, appeared in IEEE Computer Society in 1987.

Responding to the overpromises of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, Brooks, who had been the Chief Architect for the renowned IBM OS 360 system and author of the landmark, “Mythical Man Month”, argued that tools could help with the “accidental” problems of software engineering but could not solve the “essence” of the problem. So today, enterprise tools are advertised as solving more than they can. 

Silver Bullet Solutions was founded to draw focus on the “essence” of the problem and to bring to bear the right skills, knowledge, tools, and techniques.