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No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
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But, as we look to the horizon of a decade hence, we see no silver bullet. There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. In this article, I shall try to show why, by examining both the nature of the software problem and the properties of the bullets proposed.
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- Authors
- Brooks
- Venue
- Computer
- Published
- 1987-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 10-19
- ISSN
- 0018-9162 (ISSN-L)
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- References
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- FWCI
- 183.88
- Type
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- en
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