There is a quote taken from an article by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., who is generally considered to be one of the leading authors and contributors to the field of project management and software development.

Search the Web for this article and for other articles by and/or about Fred Brooks.

a. In conducting your search, how many references to the author did you find?

b. Based upon the information presented in the previous chapters, explain Brooks’s statement that “the hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.”

c. What was the name of the article in which Brooks made the preceding statement, and what was the article’s main theme?

d. What is Brooks’s best-known book that is still in print and widely read decades after its original publication? What was the main theme of this book?

e. What do you consider to be Brookes’s greatest contribution to date? Why?