• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    They fully subscribed to the mythical man month. So they just threw bodies at it and then couldn’t understand why the project got slower.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t understand your statement. The Mythical Man Month teaches exactly that lesson of more bodies != Faster in many cases.

      How long to build the site with 1 full stack dev? 1.5 years.

      How long with an existing high performance team of 5? 2 months.

      How long if you hire 4 plus the one original (all qualified)? 1 to 1.5 years.

      How long if we hire 30 full stack devs? Maybe never.

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        9 months ago

        Poorly worded on my part.

        They fully bought into the idea of the man-month without realising it was mythical.

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          9 months ago

          You know? I literally figured that out a minute before I saw your reply. And I rolled my eyes at myself.

          That makes sense. Silly me

          Cheers