https://ad1tya-tech.pages.dev/tags/brookslaw/ Recent content in Brookslaw on My New Hugo Project Hugo en-us Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ad1tya-tech.pages.dev/posts/2026/01/2026-01-12-brooks-law-why-hiring-more-developers-will-kill-your-deadline/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ad1tya-tech.pages.dev/posts/2026/01/2026-01-12-brooks-law-why-hiring-more-developers-will-kill-your-deadline/ <h1 id="the-panic-hire">The Panic Hire</h1> <p>It is the most natural instinct in business. If you need to dig a ditch and you are behind schedule, you hire more diggers. Two people can dig a ditch twice as fast as one. Labor is interchangeable.</p> <p>Managers assume coding is like digging ditches. It is not. Coding is like performing surgery.</p> <p>In his 1975 classic <em>The Mythical Man-Month</em>, Fred Brooks observed a phenomenon that plagues the tech industry to this day: <strong>The &ldquo;Rescue&rdquo; Paradox.</strong> When a project is late, adding fresh bodies to the team actually pushes the delivery date <em>further out</em>.</p>