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Adding more people to a software project often has the effect of making it take longer, at least for mid to near term milestones. Quadrupling sounds like the a
by gregable 16y ago
Adding more people to a software project often has the effect of making it take longer, at least for mid to near term milestones. Quadrupling sounds like the adage of pouring gasoline on a fire.
- donohoe 16y agoI know that - you know that - and they probably do to. I think in this case the point is to reassure people that they are taking it seriously.
- mindcrime 16y agoTrue, but it may not be the case that all of this new staff is going to increasing the size of existing project teams... they could be spinning up whole new teams for new projects - for which the idea had been stuck on the back-burner.
- look_lookatme 16y agoRight, but they are a company thinking in terms of years going forward. Gotta get people hired at some point.
- chunkbot 16y agoI'm surprised that this has so many upvotes. Are you all net this simplistic?
- wtracy 16y agoYour attitude may be appropriate for software development, but if we're talking about the number of IT people watching the server farm, more is probably better.