Comment Re:The Mythical Man Month. (Score 1) 662
A good book and it discusses how adding MORE programmers to a task means the project will take LONGER to complete.
So, adding more programmers to a late project, and not slipping the date even more to account for them, [b]probably[/b] means that the final result [b]will[/b] suck.
From what I've seen, the book is pretty much dead on with this one. I do wonder if having people leave a project mid-stream and adding new people to it makes it even longer. Isn't this part of the picture with Microsoft? I've heard of a lot of developers leaving to go to other places. Some of them must of have deeply ingrained in the Vista project(s). Coming in half-way through a project and expected to continue where someone left off is a complete mess, especially when you can't contact the person to get any info about their undocumented code.
So, adding more programmers to a late project, and not slipping the date even more to account for them, [b]probably[/b] means that the final result [b]will[/b] suck.
From what I've seen, the book is pretty much dead on with this one. I do wonder if having people leave a project mid-stream and adding new people to it makes it even longer. Isn't this part of the picture with Microsoft? I've heard of a lot of developers leaving to go to other places. Some of them must of have deeply ingrained in the Vista project(s). Coming in half-way through a project and expected to continue where someone left off is a complete mess, especially when you can't contact the person to get any info about their undocumented code.
