In this context, the narrative was around hiring a single individual, not moving a thousand-person division of engineers onto the project. In a large-scale syst

In this context, the narrative was around hiring a single individual, not moving a thousand-person division of engineers onto the project. In a large-scale system, you also have to deal with the entailments of all those thousand people: the managerial overhead, the administrative overhead, the offices, etc. "Resources" becomes more appropriate, because it is more than individuals.