Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica...
by Nasrudith on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:04AM
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The point of Brook's law isn't that extra people won't aid conclusion but that the overhead isn't free and unless the date is grossly overambitious (like 10% done) adding more people will add more tasks in "creating infastructure".
Lets take say Civilizations for example and say you need to build a spearman in 7 turns to not lose - but it would take 9 right now you already have production maximized without adding new buildings. Technically building a forge could speed it up to 6 turns but it takes 20 to build it. Even if it would help adding it right now would only make an intolerable delay even worse.
To get away from the geeky metaphor bottleneck and chokepoint management are a crucial part of making projects parallelizible across many developers and even then there are expenses to making them interoperate.
Unless you are grossly behind it is unlikely adding more people will help unless you are vastly overambitious and try to do something with one person that requires a team of thousands. In which case you have probably already failed too massively to help.
Lets take say Civilizations for example and say you need to build a spearman in 7 turns to not lose - but it would take 9 right now you already have production maximized without adding new buildings. Technically building a forge could speed it up to 6 turns but it takes 20 to build it. Even if it would help adding it right now would only make an intolerable delay even worse.
To get away from the geeky metaphor bottleneck and chokepoint management are a crucial part of making projects parallelizible across many developers and even then there are expenses to making them interoperate.
Unless you are grossly behind it is unlikely adding more people will help unless you are vastly overambitious and try to do something with one person that requires a team of thousands. In which case you have probably already failed too massively to help.