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This quote made Brook's law echo in my head: "But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have bee
by crikli 15y ago
This quote made Brook's law echo in my head:
"But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months if the company had added more people to the team." [Emphasis mine]
- huxley 15y agoYeah, I basically agree except Brooks himself said in the Mythical Man-Month that Brooks' Law is "an outrageous oversimplification." Not every job is comparable to "nine women having one baby in one month." There can be sweet spots in staffing, and sometimes projects really don't have enough staff to achieve their goals.
- thought_alarm 15y agoBut an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months Yeah. All they needed to do was bring in some programmers to start implementing the thing.