No Silver Bullets

Watched through a large portion of Steve McConnell's online course Code Complete Essentials late last week, and if I had the spare cash, I'd complete the course -- I was thoroughly enjoying Construx Software's free trial and can only rave about the courses I saw, including overviews of Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies. During the Code Complete course, McConnell referenced Fred Brooks' paper "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering", and I both wanted to share the paper he referenced and save it for later reading, which is a little odd since I know I downloaded this paper probably ten years ago, but never got back to read it. Oh well, maybe I will this time, and maybe you'll benefit from it, too. Cheers!