Project Management Rule # 3

Project Management Rule # 3
there can only be so many developers on a project. It's called the Law of Diminishing Returns.

When you have 1 developer on a project and you bring in another the productivity is actually more than double what the original guy was doing. You get to 5 developers, and that only doubles what 2 guys were doing. It takes nearly 15 to double the work that 5 guys were doing, but you also need 1-3 managers to manage that team.

Project Management rule #3: resources are finite. Objectives are not. Throwing more resources at a project does not make it happen faster. Defining the objectives does.