Fred Brooks is gone, but his IT management lessons will live forever
Fred Brooks died last month at age 91. Thanks to his best-selling software development management book, The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering, he became a programming and management legend.
Over the decades, I've met many tech leaders, but few were as quietly impressive as Brooks. While I saw him several times at events, I only spoke to him once when he was the chairman of the University of North Carolina's computer science department.