Adding more people to delaying projects

A project that can be done by a single developer in 3 months is said to be 3 man-month projects. Often the calendar duration is 45 – 60 days which means that the vendor organization will allocate 2 developers to work on it. So, with a quick calculation you can tell that a 3 man-month project will take 1.5 months if 2 developers are working on it. Does than mean that if you can have 3 developers working on project then this project can be done in 1 month? I don’t think so! “….Add more people and get it done sooner” - This is the #1 idea that 90% people get when they have a pressing deadline and they want the project to be done sooner. But, as we know, this never has worked and it never will. Let me introduce you to Brook’s Law: Assigning more programmers t View the rest of this article