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We were going to do this. Get several months to set up a clean base for our new system with only the four most competent people working on it. Then I went on v
by Aeolun 2y ago
We were going to do this. Get several months to set up a clean base for our new system with only the four most competent people working on it.
Then I went on vacation for a week.
Come back to a system that needs to be delivered to prod next month with 20 randos submitting PR’s…
WTF happened. Did you learn nothing from previous failures?
- bboygravity 2y agoWhat was the lesson they where supposed to have learned?
- Aeolun 2y ago9 women cannot have a baby in a month. There’s a limited amount of people that can work on a system at the start of a project if you want it to be a coherent whole, so that you can have everyone iterate on it in the same style later. If you start out with 20 (junior) engineers, you get a kind of frankenstein where all issues are waved away because ‘we need to deliver in a week’
- czl 2y agoAka "Brooks's Law" or more broadly, the idea that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" from Brook's "Mythical Man-Month"