You 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

You 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.