Sure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby.

^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption.

9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.

Off topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation?

Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.

The word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy.

See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy

"Hackernewsing"

Darmoking?

Sorry, but is there some kind evidence that Giannandeea is incabale of the strategy and logistics needed to manage multiple projects in parallel?

But those 9 women don’t need to coordinate, each one will merrily go along with her task alone. So let’s keep the metaphor as used originally, it doesn’t extend further

This example took a life of its own.

Just wanted to clarify an irrelevant point to this discussion - Length of the pregnancy isn't 9 months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777570/

9 women cannot make 9 babies in 1 month nor 1 women can make 1 baby in 1 month. no concurrency in baby making for sure.

There is some potential concurrency: a woman can produce two or more babies in 9 months, although it is uncommon.

the process is not concurrent. it is still parallel.

Unless the child processes have different fathers, which can and does occasionally happen.

Let's say you have a project with 9 parts. Each part will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take 9 people and give them each one part it will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take one person it will take ~81 months as they need to finish each part before they can go onto the next one.