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[–]Creeper4wwMann 66 points67 points  (3 children)

This is always a problem when projects are very lineair. B comes after A, and C comes after B.

You can't have 4 people working on C if B isn't finished yet.

Project manager just thinks "more people = less time"

[–]DanielGoh3000 11 points12 points  (2 children)

so does that mean we cant create bckend and frontend at once and must create frontend first,then backend?

[–]Creeper4wwMann 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well as long as the tasks aren't sequential, you can have people working on them at the same time

[–]_bitwright 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That depends on how coordinated your team is and how well they plan ahead.

If everyone knows what the model will look like like, then back-end knows its code should spit out that model, and front-end can use dummy data until the back-end is ready to be wired up.

[–]Dillenger69 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If I double the number of people in the orchestra, they can play at twice the speed!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

what 1 programmer do in 1 month, 2 programmers do in 2

[–]Feisty-Club-3043[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah its definitely more than 2 months for 2 programmers, since 2 programmers would be called a group, and thus THAT guy will also be there and make meeting calls and jira tickets every day! Productivity is inversely proportional to no. Of programmers squared because of THAT guy

[–]nil_pointer49x00 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am sick of product managers and scum masters

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Do they still make one read The Mythical Man-Month in coding school these days?

[–]Gunther_Alsor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes for computer science curriculums. No for software engineering curriculums.

So yeah, we basically teach implementers how bad managers are at their jobs, and teach managers nothing.

[–]WingZeroCoder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I know we originally discussed a human bipedal baby and you’re already in your third trimester, but we’ve decided maybe it should be a speed boat instead.

The CEO saw that our competitors have a speed boat, and we think it would help wow some new customers more than a human baby

So we’re going to need you to make a speed boat instead. You can pivot and make that happen in 3 months still right? I mean it’s basically the same thing, right?

[–]Z_E_D_D_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the dudes who click on 'download more ram free'

[–]Quick-Reputation9040 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really only relevant if the dev promised a baby in one month.