Adding more people to a project
@_workchronicles @Keltounet Ah, (Fred) Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower [sic] to a late project makes it later.” Aside: in grad school, Brooks wanted to assign me to another prof’s late project. I quoted his law to him—he laughed and said, correctly, that this was a special case. I did it; he was right.
@_workchronicles @Recuenco The best PM are like ninjas...wait in shadows to stab anyone trying to distract developers.
@_workchronicles There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are the PM and those that code. You code...
@_workchronicles Add one more month if you want to explain in meetings why you need one week extension.
@_workchronicles Good ole Brooks's Law.
@_workchronicles @lizardlabs Funny yet not exactly true.
@_workchronicles @danielmies Reminds me of a Zen Buddhist koan that goes something like this: Master, how many years until I get enlightened, when I meditate 2 hours per day? - 30 years! - and if I meditate 4 hours? - 20 years! - and if I meditate 8 hours each day? Then you will never reach Nirvana at all!
@_workchronicles This is actually a bit from the Marx Bros. in Animal Crackers. Signor Ravelli (Chico): Now, for rehearsing we make special rate. That’s $15 an hour. Groucho: That's for rehearsing? C: That’s for rehearsing. G: And what do you get for not rehearsing? C: You couldn't afford it...
@_workchronicles @jezis Yeah! And if you add a project manager then you will have a detailed explanation about how the project has failed. With a lot of colored stickers.
@_workchronicles Nine women can't have a baby in one month.
@_workchronicles This is no joke. I had contract job where they added a second engineer and expected things to go twice as fast immediately. Beside the usual start up time he proved to be more interested in playing video games than programming so he won’t show up until 10 or 11.
@_workchronicles @haesleinhuepf you may enjoy this one
@_workchronicles @rmaziere_85 Hello. Don't understand "PM". What is "PM" ?
@_workchronicles @MotwaniSuhas 🤣 How many emailed you this?
@_workchronicles @FlorianHeiseAus @NeilWhittington
@_workchronicles And then we also need a scrum master, please.
@_workchronicles @Lucifugae Parkinson's law en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson…
@_workchronicles What if the PM added keeps the other PMs and management from interfering?
@_workchronicles @eevblog I've started working on my own again.. finally my productivity is picking back up.
@_workchronicles Haha! That's what we call as counter-productive!!
@_workchronicles Meetings about other meetings, Et Al. Sometimes they're helpful cat-herders, other times they can be a bit distracting.
@_workchronicles Painfully true but ridiculously common.
