Why adding more people to a project doesn’t make it go faster

 

 

At no point in an IT project I have seen time made up without removing large parts of functionality. The common reaction to a project failing behind is to add more people to it but Brook’s law reminds us

“adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” Federick Brooks

This article will look at the reasons adding more people to a project does not speed it up and…

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Why adding more people to a project doesn’t make it go faster

At no point in an IT project I have seen time made up without removing large parts of functionality. The common reaction to a project failing behind is to add more people to it but Brook’s law reminds us “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” Federick Brooks This article will…

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Author: Ben Hosking

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