> There's a belief - that's a myth - that if 3 ppl is good the 6 is twice as good and time will be cut in half. I think we also know - with rare exception - that productivity slides as heads increase.
This goes back to Brooks and has been true since longer than most of the programming industry has been alive. I do wonder why people are so resistant to learning from the past and just assuming "the way we do things now" must be an improvement.
This goes back to Brooks and has been true since longer than most of the programming industry has been alive. I do wonder why people are so resistant to learning from the past and just assuming "the way we do things now" must be an improvement.