Created: 09 Feb 2026

Brooks’s Law

Siehe: Software Development, Game Development, Projektmanagement

Zusammengefasst in Eric Raymond’s Essay:

”Adding developers to a late software project makes it later. […] The complexity and communication costs of a project rise with the square of the number of developers, while work done only rises linearly.”

Raymond sagt aber auch, dass Open Source-Development die zugrundelegenden Annahmen von Brooks’s Law in Frage stellen…