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Cant remember that sentence. But if your project is late and you put more people onto it (more people more work done..in theory), it gets even worse.
by nix23 4y ago
Cant remember that sentence.
But if your project is late and you put more people onto it (more people more work done..in theory), it gets even worse.
- mjevans 4y agoContext from the book: bringing on new workers has a one time cost of bringing them up to speed and an ongoing cost in synchronization / communications complexity. General consensus, try to assign the optimal number of humans to as specific a task as possible and shard / divide and conqueror the tasks to minimize the headcount per task.
- fatfox 4y agoMore about Brooks’ Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
- jrochkind1 4y agoHe wasn't blaming that on the quality or nature of the specific people you added though, was he? The GP to me seemed to imply that.
- nix23 4y ago>He wasn't blaming that on the quality or nature of the specific people you added though, was he? No you are totally right, it was just about that you then waste even more time to introduce those people to the project then it will save you time.
- jrochkind1 4y agoYep, and in general more time on communication and coordination overhead -- ongoing, not just for the period of introduction -- the more people you have involved. While I find this a very insightful and important observation -- I'm not sure I see much relevance to current tech layoffs.