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Does your experience as a consumer not suggest that the amount of developers employed is, if at all, inversely correlated with software quality?
by incrudible 5y ago
Does your experience as a consumer not suggest that the amount of developers employed is, if at all, inversely correlated with software quality?
- bryanrasmussen 5y agono, it suggests that just as the amount of developers past a certain point on a project is a drag on that project the amount of developers of a product past a certain point does not significantly increase the quality of that product. If indeed the amount of developers employed was inversely correlated with software quality then the best software is that which does not exist. I realize there is a pithy saying that the best code is no code at all but I am not especially fond of such illogical pithiness. There may be products that it is best they not exist at all, but for products we do want to exist it follows that some number of developers of that product correlates with the quality of its existence.
- incrudible 5y agoI was thinking in terms of Amdahls and Brooks law. Of course zero is an edge case, but in my experience the best designs in terms of quality (not number of features) come from individual work. You can not scale this part out.