Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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

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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

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