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once my CEO asked: "can we add more developers and finish the project faster". I used this famous quote "9 mothers cannot deliver a baby in one month" and we ha

• DesiLurker 8y ago
  My somewhat more nunanced retort to such kind is that it depends how much of this work is linear and how much non-linear and how are they naturally occurring. non-linear work may mean things like understanding a complex codebase or developing an algorithm. these dont speedup by adding more people ( what I dont say is these may speedup by adding more quality/unfragmented hours to the individuals doing it). However stuff like refactoring codebase or minor bugfixes may benefit by adding more engineers. Unfortunately, the problem then becomes defending whatever timeline you have in mind for non-linear work. also doing too much of this can give bully managers an opportunity to nitpick and micromanage the whole thing.