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I've been in this situation. Where I'm being told, "Hire more developers! We need more developers!" I respond with, "I don't need any more on my team right now
by scrabble 11y ago
I've been in this situation.
Where I'm being told, "Hire more developers! We need more developers!" I respond with, "I don't need any more on my team right now. We can't handle more with our processes and the head count on our other teams."
That's not important though. To the people I was working with, more developers meant you could do more work, even if we didn't have a plan for what that work would be yet. Incredibly frustrating since more devs could actually contribute to gumming up the works if not brought in appropriately.
- sjclemmy 11y agoYou may know this, but for anyone else who doesn't this is called Brookes Law "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law]. I fell foul of this recently, I bowed to the pressure and hired more resource even though I knew it wouldn't make the difference expected. It was more of a political statement; "I'm listening to what you're saying and see? I'm doing what I can to make the project go faster." They were essentially paying to feel that things were being done to meet the deadline.