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Respect the Classics, Man: No Silver Bullet

28 Jun 2006 / PE

This essay by Turing Award-winner Fred Brooks is almost 20 years old now. Sadly, the ideas on incremental development are still considered outside the mainstream in IT, which continues to favor the widely-discredited waterfall approach.

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