The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
The dilemma is a cruel one. For efficiency and conceptual integrity, one prefers a few good minds doing design and construction. Yet for large systems one wants a way to bring considerable manpower to bear, so that the product can make a timely appearance. How can these two needs be reconciled? Mills's Proposal A proposal by Harlan Mills offers a f
... See moreFrederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
If you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from:
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- Decreased skin in the game, which reduces team alignment
- N^2 communication, which creates need for managers and specialization, which reduces individual agency and breadth of learning
- Reduced risk tolerance, which slows everything down
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- Multidiscipline teams where everyone is present. Parkinson's law was written based upon the absence of teams.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
As Fred Brooks pointed out almost 50 years ago, “adding more engineers to an already late project won’t make it go faster”.