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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers…
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart…
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the…

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