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mythical man month

• surajrmal 7mo ago
  If your work is parallizable, you can get more done. Eg more enterprise features you weren't currently going to do, more sales calls, more marketing campaigns, etc. mythical man month only applies to highly coupled work with large ramp time. Engineers often don't spend enough time planning to keep work decoupled (and with less people it's unnecessary overhead to do so).
  • whateveracct 7mo ago
    Not necessarily true even for seemingly parallelizable work. I can often do 3 unrelated tickets faster than I can hand 2 off to 2 devs. The PM will wish we could parallelize, but sadly conceptual locality is a thing.