Re:Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be
by majormajor on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:16PM
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> We have developers committing code in their first week. Sometimes day 1 or 2.
If you're doing anything complex (which can just be: if your codebase is more than a year or so old) than the quality and velocity of code someone can contribute on day 1 is vastly lower than they can a month later.
I see the Mythical Man Month tossed around as an excuse for not trying sometimes - by people who haven't even tried to split up and spread out chunks of work in parallel - but onboarding cost is definitely real.
You gotta evaluate "can I get enough overall throughput at this point in time to make up for the total efficiency lost" and also the rest of the business priorities outside of this one project.
If you're doing anything complex (which can just be: if your codebase is more than a year or so old) than the quality and velocity of code someone can contribute on day 1 is vastly lower than they can a month later.
I see the Mythical Man Month tossed around as an excuse for not trying sometimes - by people who haven't even tried to split up and spread out chunks of work in parallel - but onboarding cost is definitely real.
You gotta evaluate "can I get enough overall throughput at this point in time to make up for the total efficiency lost" and also the rest of the business priorities outside of this one project.