I'm still reading the essay -- I had to stop and comment about the following paragraph: "This results in folks that think adding more developers to a project a

I'm still reading the essay -- I had to stop and comment about the following paragraph: "This results in folks that think adding more developers to a project at the beginning will allow them to hit an arbitrary date by spreading out the workload. Unfortunately new software doesn’t work this way, either, as the same exponential communication overhead occurs in the beginning, too. You merely end up with a giant mass of incoherent code. And you waste a lot of money employing people who don’t add much value, sitting on the bench waiting for their part of the project to begin." These must be folks who stopped reading The Mythical Man-Month after chapter 2? I would think the following chapter about The Surgical Team would counter such thinking. Unless people are only taking away the lesson about the programmer productivity gap?