No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering Mike Ballou“There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of- Software Engineering • In 1987, authored No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering“We hear desperate cries for a silver bullet – something to make software costs drop as rapidly rapidly as computer hardware costs do…. Not only are there no silver bullets now in view, the very nature of software makes it unlikely that there will be any.”Sources of Essential Difficulty“Let us

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