What is the best resource which explains an outsider why developing software is hard and takes a lot of time in general? I'm thinking of a small accessible book (perhaps even a cartoon) that starts with a bunch of analogies, and then explains why those analogies are true in real life (this last part is important).
It also has a 20 or 25 year later anniversary edition.
I like his chapter / point about "No silver bullet" in the 2nd edition.
Edit: He (Fred Brooks, the author) was in charge of the OS/360 project (OS for the IBM System 360 mainframe series). A pretty large project of the time - years long.
But I don't think it catches just how much of an expert on all sorts of quirks of how many libraries a programmer must actually be, like the current article does.
