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by DavidChouinard 5250 days ago
If you're not familiar Frederick Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month [1], it's a great read.

In it, he postulates Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Surprisingly how long we've known this (1975), yet we constantly need to be reminded of it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month