2.7. Overcoming Brooks' Law

• The Book "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks was written in 1974 and a second edition was released in 1995, which included four new chapters.
• The Book is considered a seminal work in the field of software engineering and team management.
• It is basically a long list of problems a software project may encounter with solutions proposed for them. (some good, some partial)
• Brooks' Law: adding more developers to a project increases the number of interactions that have to exist between them, and so the output does not increase linearily.
• As ESR notes, Gerald Weiberg observed that in shops where developers were not territorial about their code, and encouraged others to look for bugs and correct them, output was drastically better.
• That's why an open-source Bazaar-style project which is open for public scrutiny can advance much faster than a completely closed Cathedral-style project.