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Saying you can speed up software development by hiring more developers is like saying you can get planes to fly faster by adding more pilots.-
Parallel tracks for sure, but throwing more bodies at the same problem doesn’t always work.
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Analogies are hard
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This isn’t an apt analogy.
That would suggest hiring more Devs makes computers faster.
But if you measure passenger throughput, hiring Pilots & Planes can increase passengers
Hiring Devs & computers can increase code development
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@aaronpk I think that’s the argument of the book “The Mythical Man-Month” and I seem to recall that hiring too many more devs slows the project down because coodination gets harder.
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As someone who does hire more devs to speed up development I can assure you more devs can speed up development lol in fact I have data in jira to prove velocity increases :)
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@aaronpk I heard that it's like making 9 women to give birth to a child in one month.
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@aaronpk I heard that it's like making 9 women to give birth to a child in one monthö
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@aaronpk So many lessons in the Mythical Man Month that people insist on re-learning the hard way. This book should be required for any CS major: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMythicalMan-Month
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That's interesting. I can think of a lot of tasks that take a long time, like building a house or writing a book, that do go faster if you have more people working on them.
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The analogy I learned in school had to do with pregnancy.
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