That's the Fred Brooks "chief programmer" model that the post mentions in the first paragraph. Brooks describes it in one chapter of _The Mythical Man Month_,

That's the Fred Brooks "chief programmer" model that the post mentions in the first paragraph. Brooks describes it in one chapter of _The Mythical Man Month_, which is one of those rare cases of a book in the tech field that's still interesting and readable decades after it was written. If you haven't read it yet and you like that kind of book that's about the underlying principles of the craft of writing software rather than specific technical detail, I recommend it.