Were staff added to the Collins project, causing the project to run late ?
May 4, 2010 by
Filed under schedule management software
Brooks's observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had mistakenly added more workers to a project falling behind schedule. He also made the mistake of asserting that one project — writing an Algol compiler — would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (It required longer). The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called "The Bible of Software Engineering", because, "everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it."[1] The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering.[2] The work was first published in 1975 (ISBN 0-201-00650-2), reprinted with corrections in 1982, and republished as an anniversary edition with four extra chapters in 1995>
You would think it would expedite things but who knows what the agenda of those people is or the people who brought them on board in the first place ~ you have to look at it from all angles