Notes

Brooks’s law, an observation by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month:

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

New team members need context, training, and time to become part of the team’s day-to-day communication. All of this takes time from the existing team, and many tasks cannot simply be divided among more people.

I’m launching tsymbal.dev as an engineering journal. I publish in-depth articles under Writing and keep shorter observations here.

If you can’t explain a decision briefly in terms of its constraints, those constraints probably haven’t been defined yet.