• emmeram@lemm.ee
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    Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

    Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975

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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.

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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