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 Tuesday 04 October 2005 07:25 pm, chuck5566 wrote: One that comes to mind starts something like "There's never enough to do right. . ." ;-) 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. > > On Monday 03 October 2005 05:23 pm, Greg Woodhouse wrote: > From today's ACM Tech News: > > "Development Study: Haste Makes Waste" > Computerworld (09/23/05); Hayes, Linda > > A recent study has found that increased funding has little impact on > the overall quality of a project. Qualitative Software Management's > estimation product, known as SLIM, provides an empirical analysis of a > variety of projects addressing IT, real time embedded systems, and > engineering. Offering accurate project estimation has been a > long-standing but elusive goal of the software industry. In > repeating a > study it had conducted in 1996, SLIM confirmed that the delivery > difference between a large team and a small team was only 12 days; > that > result came partially because large teams created more than six times > the number of errors as small teams. Large teams failed to deliver > significant improvements in cost, time, or quality, widely recognized > as the three major metrics of software development. The SLIM study > confirmed the theory that adding more resources to a project yields > diminishing returns. The efficiency of small teams is fostered by an > atmosphere of intimate collaboration, and the information produced > does > not take as much time to sink into each member of a smaller team. The > diminishing quality stems from the absence of a holistic view of the > project when it is broken down into compartmentalized segments and > distributed to each member of a large team; this approach can lead to > errors and complications that arise from cobbling together bodies of > code written by different authors not in communication with each > other. > > <http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/ > 0,10801,104 > 846,00.html> > > > > > === > Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > "Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many > discoveries > would not have been made." > > -- Albert Einstein > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
