Generalizing Brooks’ law
Brooks' law can be expanded in three ways to generalize it and consider it in other contexts.
- Brooks's law can be applied to other endeavours such as different types of business, academic, and hobby projects.
- Brook's law can be applied to negative outcomes other than delays. E.g., adding people to a software project might lead to a worse product or increased conflicts between team members.
- Brook's law can be applied to resources other than manpower. For example, adding money to a certain project might not lead to it finishing faster because spending more money doesn't address the real problem.
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