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Just a tip: don't forget the nearly 50-year old book The Mythical Man-Month. It may have some lessons!
by alextalks 3y ago
Just a tip: don't forget the nearly 50-year old book The Mythical Man-Month. It may have some lessons!
- omoikane 3y agoDefinitely read Mythical Man-Month, which describes how adding more people may delay a project due to communication overhead ("why did the Tower of Babel fail?"). I was thinking this article would be an example of that, but actually while Mythical Man-Month mostly assumes that new team members would share the same visions and goals, this article takes a more adversarial view where new team members are assumed to come with their own agenda. I believe it's a form of cookie licking[1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091201-00/?p=15843 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091201-00/?p=15...