“Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1]… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Communication Copy Share Image
“The large organization will consist of many semi-autonomous units, which we may call quasi-firms. Each of them will have a large amount… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Freedom Copy Share Image
“Simplicity and straightforwardness proceed from conceptual integrity.” — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Integrity Copy Share Image
“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Architecture Copy Share Image
“To summarize: write down explicit guesses for the attributes of the user set. It is far better to be explicit and wrong… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“Third, enumerating the frequencies explicitly helps everyone recognize which decisions depend upon which user set properties. Even this sort of informal sensitivity… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Important decision Copy Share Image
“it sprang from a conviction that the quality of the people on a project, and their organization and management, are much more… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Excellence Copy Share Image
“For it to be successful, the architect must • remember that the builder has the inventive and creative responsibility for the implementation;… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Architecture Copy Share Image
“the conceptual integrity of a system determines its ease of use.” — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Integrity Copy Share Image
“Peopleware. A major contribution during recent years has been DeMarco and Lister's 1987 book, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Its underlying thesis… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Management Copy Share Image
“A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Computers Copy Share Image
