David Forsyth
Arie van Deursen 🇪🇺🇳🇱Bumped into this NYT obituary for Fred Brooks. Somehow I had missed it in 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html
* #BrooksLaw Intensifies *
FeralRobotsWhile it's generally true IME that adding more people to a late project will make it later*, firing people will not make it come in early.
The point of Brook's Law is that adding people adds overhead. Removing people also adds overhead.
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*a.ka. #BrooksLaw
#BrooksLaw is one of those things that's untuitively clear to people who work solo or on very small teams, & which gets less & less clear the higher one gets in the management hierarchy. From 10,000+ feet, managemetn thinks that devs are pixels.
Christine Sætre-esqueDear internet:
‘Silo’ complaints are so whiny sometimes.
There are logistical and coordination realities for selective involvement in certain stages. It takes time to add new people to a project and get them up to speed and productive.
And it isn’t a ‘silo’ just because you, personally, don’t get a say.
FalkMit jedem Meeting werden es mehr Leute und es ist wirklich so:
Desto mehr Leute in einer Sache involviert sind, desto langsamer wird es.
#brookslaw
Desto mehr Leute in einer Sache involviert sind, desto langsamer wird es.
#brookslaw
Arie van Deursen“It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas.”
Fred Brooks on “conceptual integrity” in system design. RIP.
https://twitter.com/grady_booch/status/1593478292341813248
#softwareengineering #brookslaw #conceptualintegrity #fredbrooks @seresearchers