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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
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975
“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.
All they need is a third developer to divide up the project for them and design the interfaces
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
