{"id":69,"date":"2012-06-03T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-06-03T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T13:27:14","slug":"brooks-law-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Brook&#8217;s law: revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha. I went and read the Mythical Man Month again. Found the spot where he speaks about the effect of adding more people. Then I went and read comments from you guys and thought. <\/p>\n<p>The result is that, indeed, if I dial the effects really high, the project indeed moves slower than it was before. For a while. The critical effects I found were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Productivity drop. The rest of the team needs to effectively to focus on teaching the newcomers<\/li>\n<li>Hiring speed. The speed at which the new people come on board has an interestingly strong effect. When the new people get added gradually, the resulting impact is way smaller<\/li>\n<li>Error rate. The rookies need to make a ton of mistakes for the result to show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, this is pretty much exactly what Brook says. And actually my model behaves exactly like Brooke says, too. You see, he talks about a late project. A project that is either close to or having already passed a deadline. And if you add so late in the project that it ends <em>before<\/em> they learn the ropes and the productivity gains show, he is right. In the long run, though, adding more people will work out.<\/p>\n<p>What a relief! Both me and mr. Brook were right! Not that the latter would come as a surprise, though.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I have already some tasty numbers for this weeks episode, so stay tuned and observe SD in action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha. I went and read the Mythical Man Month again. Found the spot where he speaks about the effect of adding more people. Then I went and read comments from you guys and thought. The result is that, indeed, if I dial the effects really high, the project indeed moves slower than it was before. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brooks-law","tag-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaction.kytt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}