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There is a maxim from the essay "The Mythical Man-Month" saying that adding people to a late software project makes it later. It takes time for new people to b
by niea_11 6y ago
There is a maxim from the essay "The Mythical Man-Month" saying that adding people to a late software project makes it later.
It takes time for new people to become productive, communication becomes difficult and some tasks can't be "parallelized".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
- easton 6y agoThat wasn’t really the analyst’s question though. He wondered given the size and complexity of the game, should more people have been on the project from the ground floor (not added in the last month once they weren’t going to clear the bug tracker), or was it a organizational/management issue that they couldn’t get something good from the talent they had?
- niea_11 6y agoYou are correct. I think that Nowakowski misunderstood the question, and assumed it's mainly about the delays.
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- lozaning 6y agoTwo copies of MMM is a great gag-ish gift to your manager on Christmas that i highly recommend.
- nitrogen 6y agoNine copies would be better, of course.