How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Fred Brooks

About Fred Brooks

Portrait of Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book...