{"id":1323,"date":"2009-01-02T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2009-01-02T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:23:47","slug":"brooks-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/brooks-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks&#8217; Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Brooks&#8217; Law:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">&#8220;Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><em>Who\u00a0said it:<\/em> Frederick P Brooks,\u00a0Jr. in\u00a0<em>The Mythical Man-Month<\/em> 1975<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><em>What it means:<\/em> Getting new team members up to speed delays development even more than just finishing the job with the existing team.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><em>What too many people think it means:<\/em> A crazy idea. If throwing more people at the problem doesn&#8217;t help how could it hurt?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><em>Why the difference matters:<\/em> Developing systems isn&#8217;t like picking sweet corn. Until we all understand that, we&#8217;ll keep wasting the time and people we throw at projects that slip their schedules.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"736191716-23122008\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">From Computer World&#8217;s column Frankly Speaking by Frank Hayes (currently it&#8217;s hanging on my wall). Don&#8217;t ask me when. It&#8217;s old.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks&#8217; Law: &#8220;Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.&#8221; \u00a0 Who\u00a0said it: Frederick P Brooks,\u00a0Jr. in\u00a0The Mythical Man-Month 1975 \u00a0 What it means: Getting new team members up to speed delays development even more than just finishing the job with the existing team. What too many people think it means: A crazy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[228,239],"tags":[282],"class_list":{"0":"post-1323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-quotes","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-business","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}