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[Series] Experiencing Facts and Fallacies of SE - Stop! No more people onboard

Btara Truhandarien on September 17, 2018

Note: This post is based on fact #3 of the book 'Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering'" "Adding people to a late project makes it later" ...
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Btara Truhandarien

Funnily enough though in software engineering we think of ourselves as practicing the art of transforming human creativity to machinery logic, we're really bad at finding good measurements for our work. Productivity measurement? Code quality measurement? Contribution measurement? We're bad at measuring them or downright don't know how to measure them!

I don't know how steep the diminishing returns are in software engineering when adding people, but I do agree with you that software engineering is much more than the sum of the efforts of X number of people