Modernizing the mythical man-month
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Title
Modernizing the mythical man-month
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Creator
Cantu, Valentin Jr
Anthony, Barbara M.
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Identifier
Barbara M. Anthony and Valentin Cantu, Jr. 2018. Modernizing the mythical man-month. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 34, 2 (December 2018), 110-116.
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https://collections.southwestern.edu/s/suscholar/item/245
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Abstract
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering [4] by Dr. Fred Brooks is often required reading in many software engineering classes and recommended by practitioners throughout industry as a text with which computer scientists should be familiar. Yet, while many of the conceptual ideas that were first presented decades ago are still applicable today, aspects of the presentation of the material are lacking in inclusivity, posing additional challenges for faculty who are trying to increase diversity within the discipline. Thus, we propose a student-developed portrayal of some of the concepts in a modernized fashion, presented as a menu and incorporating ideas from the food-service industry, a model that more college students are directly familiar with than the surgical team.
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Publisher
Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
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Subject
Mythical man month : essays on software engineering.
Software engineering
Teaching computer sciences
