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I wasn’t impressed by Man Month. The two major insights IIRC: 1. Adding more people adds overhead which slows down productivity. Might even make it worse 2. 1

I wasn’t impressed by Man Month. The two major insights IIRC: 1. Adding more people adds overhead which slows down productivity. Might even make it worse 2. 10X developer (100X) mythology and how other programmers should be their support secretaries (1) is too obvious and (2) I didn’t like for self-interest reasons.

Jtsummers 4y ago
> (1) is too obvious If only. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/19/lockheed-reassigns-workers-to-fix-f35-software.html https://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/19/lockheed-reas... > Lockheed Martin Corp. has reassigned 200 engineers to work on the F-35 fighter jet's software, a problem area that Defense Department officials fear could cause more delays to the program. Somehow obvious to DOD, but not to LM. And that's just one of the more high profile incidents I know of, I've witnessed plenty of others (directly or indirectly) that never made news. Nearly 40 years after MMM was published and people in major corps still have to relearn the lessons.
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  Consider that from Lockheed Martin's perspective: The F-35 at that point is a program that is guaranteed to have money flowing no matter what, it is too grandiose to fail. The longer Lockheed Martin can protract the work and the more excuses they can muster to rack up the monies needed (read: monies they pocket), the better. The government cashcow will give milk. Lockheed Martin knew precisely that obvious fact of overhead.