My only point was that the quote is often misused and is highly contextual. There are countless projects where work can be efficiently parallelized. Cramming 3

My only point was that the quote is often misused and is highly contextual. There are countless projects where work can be efficiently parallelized. Cramming 30 man years in a month still sounds like a death march but we do know that say Linux kernel which by now is probably a million(†) man-year effort was done faster than in geological time. † Ok exaggerating but it is huge and with fast paced change throughout whole codebase.