{"id":1939,"date":"2007-03-01T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T05:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2007-03-01T07:23:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T12:23:16","slug":"chatting-design-with-fred-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/chatting-design-with-fred-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatting Design with Fred Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cs.unc.edu\/~brooks\/Brookspic.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Brooks\" align=left \/><br \/>\nFlying is more like riding an expensive bus. And regional jets are like those minivans in Turkey into which you are crowded with an odd assortment of people &#8212; called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stol.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/stol.cgi?s=villas&#038;p=getting_about\">Dolmas(h) or stuffed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there are some advantages. <\/p>\n<p>On the flight up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/webwise2007\/conference\/\">WebWise Conference<\/a>, I got to talk a bit with software pioneer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.unc.edu\/~brooks\/\">Fred Brooks<\/a>, who many of us know as the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mythical_Man-Month\">the Mythical Man-Month<\/a> and the man responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooks%27_law\">Brook&#8217;s Law<\/a> as regards software development.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who were delighted and influenced by Mythical Man-Month will be exited to know that Brooks is at work on a new book of essays. This time about <a href=\"http:\/\/science-of-design.org\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">the Science of Design<\/a> (as regards software intensive systems). <a href=\"http:\/\/science-of-design.org\/index.php?title=Analysis_Section\">What is that?<\/a> I&#8217;m aware of the field but am now reading up in anticipation of Brooks&#8217; book or perhaps books of essays to come. <\/p>\n<p>One good introduction to Fred&#8217;s explorations into the &#8220;The Design of Design&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.clemson.edu\/~mark\/330\/brooks_design.html\">this video and other links from his 2002 talk at CMU<\/a> which is itself an update of his Turing lecture.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had thought to ask Fred more about how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design_thinking\">Design Thinking<\/a> with its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design_thinking#Stages\">seven stages<\/a> fits into the thinking about the Science of Design. Fred did say that he wasn&#8217;t convinced that there was a &#8220;science&#8221; there quite yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying is more like riding an expensive bus. And regional jets are like those minivans in Turkey into which you are crowded with an odd assortment of people &#8212; called Dolmas(h) or stuffed. But there are some advantages. On the flight up to the WebWise Conference, I got to talk a bit with software pioneer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}