iirc, mythical man month doesn't say that output of n > n+1 permanently; it says that you temporarily lose productivity until everyone is brought back up to spe

iirc, mythical man month doesn't say that output of n > n+1 permanently; it says that you temporarily lose productivity until everyone is brought back up to speed. It becomes an effectively permanent loss if you're using the strategy "the later it is, the more people you throw at it". But if there's no continous stream of newcomers, or rather sufficient gaps between hiring, then more man-hours does (eventually) produce more output.