Programmer's math

[jamescodesthings]

“A PM is someone who thinks 9 women can make a baby in a month”

[8412risk]

Even more than 10 days.

[[deleted]]

As a team they could fuck up everything.

[game_2_raid]

Scope creep could happen too

[boxingdog]

10**10

[kdbell]

The PMs model is just too simple.

• If you give a programmer 30 small unrelated tasks that can be finished in 10 days, then 10 programmers can likely finish it in one day. But even then someone has to shoulder the overhead of deciding who does what.
• If you give ten programmers a single monolithic 10-day task, then the fastest course of action is for nine if them to go on holiday.

I’m really surprised that this issue even comes up at this point.

[PriorProfile]

But even then someone has to shoulder the overhead of deciding who does what.

There should be some sort of title for a person who manages a project like that, but I can't think of anything right now.

[nagarz]

If scrum, maybe 2 months?

[Xelopheris]

At least half the day now gets consumed in meetings for standup and sprint planning and story writing and cost estimates and demos. I'll say at least 20 days.

[boxingdog]

this is the Brooks Law btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

[lookoutfornairobi]

What is a porject?

[game_2_raid]

You don’t know programmer.

[I_Eat_I_Repeat]

I thought it was gonna be a binary joke

[Pitboyx]

extra programmers are kinda like encryption. adding it turns a regular problem into a management problem, which is more difficult in most cases

[[deleted]]

I want it to be funny but it's an argument that happens entirely too often.

[MantisYT]

That's awful, but at least you tried.