Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

[Gregory Woodhouse]

Fred Brooks was a hopeless optimist. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "One must shy away from questionable undertakings,  even when they have a high sounding name." --Albert Einstein On Oct 4, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Ben Mehling wrote: On 10/4/05, Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have been trying to recall, but I think it is something like doubling the number of programmers quadruples the time it takes to complete the project ...or something like that.   On Oct 3, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > I have I heard this before as an aphorism with a lot fewer word but > exactly > the same meaning.  As I recall,  I heard Rick Marshall pass it on > as a quote > from someone else about what happens when you add more programmers > to a > project. I'm going to guess you're thinking of the 'classic' book Mythical Man-Month?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month - Ben