Brooks's law

Brooks's law is an observation about software project management that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."[1][2] It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. According to Brooks, under certain conditions, an incremental person when added to a project makes it take more, not less time.

  1. ^ Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month. 1995 [1975]. Addison-Wesley.
  2. ^ Maggie Fox NBC News, October 21, 2013, Better use the phone: Why Obamacare website is such a fail. Accessed Oct 21, 2013. "And sending in too many of the "best and the brightest’ might not be the right fix, either, software experts note. They often cite Brooks’s Law, which holds that adding people to a project slows it down."