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Brooks’ law is the observation that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”.
Applied wider, this principle shows that adding more resources, especially people, to various types of projects is often unhelpful and counterproductive.
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If someone else in your organization insists on adding more resources, consider doing the following:
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Brooks' law can be expanded in three ways to generalize it and consider it in other contexts.
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A classic example of Brooks’ law is a software project behind schedule. This leads management to allocate more developers to it, which causes further delays because it takes time to train the new developers.
Another example is a project that could be handled quickly by a small team but is d...
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Whether or not Brooks' law applies in a situation depends on various factors, such as:
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