Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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"You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant." -Warren Buffet
It's a quote about investing but applies to software too.
This feels like Napoleon's soldiers and the mamluks, or what was said about them.
Or something. Above a project of certain size, divisions of labour and stuff make the project complete faster, but before that it seems like a lot of extra busy work that slow down the project
Gotta put some "hours" into that timesheet somehow, right?
This is so frustratingly true.
All they need is a third developer to write the code
All they need is a third developer to divide up the project for them and design the interfaces