Fredrick
Brooks’ famous article, “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. |
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