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Fred Brooks wrote a fun book about software development in 1975 called The Mythical Man Month. Brooks' ideas are remarkably fresh today: Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. The second system can be built bit by bit by replacing components gradually, or by starting afresh with a completely new architecture. |