Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975
"You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant." -Warren Buffet
It's a quote about investing but applies to software too.
This is so frustratingly true.
All they need is a third developer to divide up the project for them and design the interfaces
Gotta put some "hours" into that timesheet somehow, right?
All they need is a third developer to write the code
This feels like Napoleon's soldiers and the mamluks, or what was said about them.
Or something. Above a project of certain size, divisions of labour and stuff make the project complete faster, but before that it seems like a lot of extra busy work that slow down the project
