jhc@hou5g.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) (03/06/85)
<> Frederick Brooks did indeed write "The Mythical Man-Month", but this was about his experiences on OS/360. The book did not espouse the "programmer team" concept, but rather reported on his experiences on the system. The "programmer team" was originally Joel Aron's idea, and was invented to try to overcome the problems encountered by Brooks while managing the above project. The idea was written up in two volumes of the Addison-Wesley/IBM series. I unfortunately forget their names, but one was subtitled "The Programmer Team" and the other was "The Individual Programmer". The combined title might have been "The Program Development Process". Personally I don't think a lot of programmer teams, but then I've never worked on any huge projects (>50 serious developers). I think that to successfully complete a project this big you have to have a bunch of really bright people to do the initial architecture and decomposition. After that it degenerates into a bunch of smaller projects, which people know how to handle. Jonathan Clark [NAC]!hou5g!jhc -- Jonathan Clark [NAC]!hou5g!jhc