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Brooks' Law comes to mind, nine women making a baby in one month and all that.
by rhizome 9y ago
Brooks' Law comes to mind, nine women making a baby in one month and all that.
- mrkurt 9y agoThe way to do it is "3 people making a baby, 3 people building a nursery, 3 people promoting the baby shower". Not all companies can do this, or are managed well enough to pull it off, but it's not an insane thing to try once you've already decided to get on the VC gravy train.
- dyim 9y agoWhat's the 3rd person's responsibility in making the baby?
- mrkurt 9y agoIn my experience, babies are best made with a life coach present.
- amygdyl 9y ago[From] "the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen." [Time and Motion Study..] .. is a major part of scientific management" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study
- amygdyl 9y agoSee Matrix Management, for reporting : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management It's obvious that the task has to be able to be subdivided suitably, but not enough is said about Matrix Management, especially when the cost of parallel business development is considered, in seeking increasing speed of execution.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoI've seen it pointed out that it's an odd choice to use the most well-known example of parallel work in the world as an icon of non-parallelizable work. Population size responds to circumstances almost immediately because birth is so well parallelized. You can have any number of women produce one baby each all in the same 40-week period. If you put any significant number of women on the problem, you'll get noticeably more than one baby each. And you can increase the litter size pretty dramatically beyond that -- how many months did it take Octomom to produce one baby?