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by Apocryphon 1232 days ago
What if the winning strategy isn’t simply seeking growth of your talent pool? Did we all forget the lessons of The Mythical Man-Month?
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Well, nine women can't deliver a baby in one month, but nine women can definitely drive nine riders where they need to go at the same time.

The mythical man-month is about how adding individual new members to an existing software team doesn't necessarily make the team deliver faster (and can even slow them down). Nowhere does it claim that adding more parallel projects or growth initiatives to a company slows the company down.