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On the contrary, such linear scaling would be quite exceptional. I'm speaking from experience but you don't need to trust me; I invite you read any book on soft
by agravier 6y ago
On the contrary, such linear scaling would be quite exceptional. I'm speaking from experience but you don't need to trust me; I invite you read any book on software engineering management, starting from The Mythical Man-Month by Brooks.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothe mythical man month was first published in 1975, I think the typical applications programmers work on today have changed significantly since then and encompass many different disciplines (to be thought professional) - so many disciplines that one developer is likely to be the master of all. It is true that there is a communication overhead to adding more people so it will not scale linearly, but if a single developer has taken 8 years to build something in our era it seems likely that having 8 people might get it done say 1 and a half to two years.