Brooks's law: why adding people makes a late project later
Brooks's law: why adding people to a late project makes it later
It sounds wrong to most bosses: a late software project, more skilled people, and a later finish. Fred Brooks put it in one sentence in 1975, and he called it far too simple himself.
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Your boss counts seven skilled people, where there were three, and race day has not moved. To your boss, that means the app will be early.
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You are less sure. The new people bring help, and they bring costs too. On a late project, what matters is which of the two comes first.
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