I don't think it seems written last week. It slowly becomes out of date -- very slow, much slower than any other book, but still.
Among the things that has significantly changed since the 20th anniversary edition are:
(a) agile/incremental methods in software development are now widespread. In the book, Brooks present himself as a big advocate of what could be called proto-agile, contrary to the waterfall model of his time, and
(b) internet service companies flourishing in the internet. The "release early, release often" model could not be practiced anywhere better than in the internet, and this mindset has a great impact on how we think about the software development in general (note that at the Brook's times there were no internet services at all)
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I don't think it seems written last week. It slowly becomes out of date -- very slow, much slower than any other book, but still.
Among the things that has significantly changed since the 20th anniversary edition are:
(a) agile/incremental methods in software development are now widespread. In the book, Brooks present himself as a big advocate of what could be called proto-agile, contrary to the waterfall model of his time, and
(b) internet service companies flourishing in the internet. The "release early, release often" model could not be practiced anywhere better than in the internet, and this mindset has a great impact on how we think about the software development in general (note that at the Brook's times there were no internet services at all)