[NTLK] [OT] a Laurent quote... (was Re: Replacement Parts)

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 18:45:26 EST


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 12/20/01 6:08 PM, the entity
known as Laurent Daudelin transmitted the following from
laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com:

> Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it
> later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting
> development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N),
> but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and
> then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of
> N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and
> author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN
> 0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering.

So, by that line of reasoning, the way to speed up the project is to pull
people off it until none are left... ;-)

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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