This article was originally posted in 2007. When I updated the image today (in 2014), it reappeared with the more recent date and I don't know how to override that (wrong) timestamp. This seems to be a bug in Blogger.
In the aftermath of a discussion about software management, I looked up the Mythical Man-Month concept on Wikipedia. The main thesis of Fred Brooks, often referred to as "Brooks's law [sic]," can simply be stated as:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.In other words, some number of cooks are necessary to prepare a dinner, but adding too many cooks in the kitchen can inflate the delivery schedule.
