Brooks's law: why adding people makes a late project later
Late project: what really works when adding people won't
The deadline is fixed, the project is late, and more people would only make it later. Every late team ends up making one move, on purpose or not.
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Only two things fix a late project: more time or less work. Race day is your deadline, the date the app must be ready by, and the city will not move it.
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Less work, then. Besides sign-up and results, the plan has a live map of the runners and race photos, and your boss wants it all, only faster. Faster means rushing, and you can guess what goes first: testing.
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