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		_8ljf on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal too... “My director offered to toss some offshore resources my way to help.” Brooks’s Law in action. Mythical Man-Month should be required reading for all developers and managers.

smoofles on April 9, 2020 [–]

I’ve seen that done just as a gesture of good will, in a "if it helps, we can spend more money"-kind of way, even though everyone involved knows it would just complicate things.

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