https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law: “Brooks' law is an observation about software project management accordi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law: “Brooks' law is an observation about software project management according to which adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer.” I also think they’re doing research, not development most of the time. Such projects can’t be time-estimated, so they can’t be late (managers or outsiders still might call them late, though), and often can’t be parallelized well (“9 women cannot make a baby in one month”), so starting out with a larger team may not have helped, either.