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I thought we had all decided that throwing more people at a software problem isn’t a viable solution.
by heartbreak 9y ago
I thought we had all decided that throwing more people at a software problem isn’t a viable solution.
- Aaargh20318 9y agoThis isn’t one software problem, it’s a shitload of software problems.
- reificator 9y agoThrowing more people at a software problem isn't a viable solution to meet a deadline. Obviously there is benefit to adding more people, it's just that that benefit takes time to offset the cost of onboarding. Communication does place an upper limit on the number of people who can work on a specific project, and later the total number of projects that can interact. Something exploratory like what what the GP was suggesting doesn't require huge teams or a lot of interaction between teams, at least until the problems are identified and need to actually be resolved.
- coldtea 9y agoThat's only if we're talking about a single codebase. Throwing more people at different programs, where they are needed, e.g. some to work on Mail.app, some to work on a better Calendar, some to work on Pages, etc, is a totally viable solution.
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