What is "Brooks's Law," and what does it imply about adding developers to a late software project?
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The correct answer is A) Brooks's Law states that "adding manpower to a late project makes it later," because new members require ramp-up time, increase communication overhead which grows non-linearly with team size, and may not be able to parallelize inherently sequential work
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Brooks's Law states that "adding manpower to a late project makes it later," because new members require ramp-up time, increase communication overhead which grows non-linearly with team size, and may not be able to parallelize inherently sequential work
From "The Mythical Man-Month," this principle highlights that software development isn't always parallelizable like, say, digging a ditch — new team members add coordination costs that can outweigh their contribution in the short term, especially on already-delayed projects.