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The Mythical Man Month as I remember only argues that adding more people to a PROJECT is a killer and that adding more people to a team gives you non-linear pro
by marcinzm 5y ago
The Mythical Man Month as I remember only argues that adding more people to a PROJECT is a killer and that adding more people to a team gives you non-linear productivity gains. Project being defined as a self contained piece of work with a scope and deadline. In the long term more people with a decent structure will give you more overall output although less efficiency. If that is worth it is a business decision.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoGood point, but the OP was using the term "team," while diagramming what is clearly a project lifecycle. I think that the article is a bit of a "mashup." You can't really have a team "falling behind," but a team can certainly be "innovating."
- marcinzm 5y agoI saw his diagrams as referring to a stream of projects rather than a single project. Or a backlog of tickets if you look at it from an agile perspective. In that environment you can definitely have a team be falling behind in the sense of items going into the backlog faster than they are worked on. Each item is a project with a deadline that is being missed. However the team metric is not merely those individual existing projects but the aggregate of all current and future projects. A larger team will usually help with that last metric in the long term.