The Mythical Man-Month

I'm revisiting an old friend of ours, The Mythical Man-Month.

From wikipedia:

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping. The work was first published in 1975, and republished as an anniversary edition in 1995 (ISBN 0-201-83595-9) with the essay No Silver Bullet and commentary by the author.

I'm recovering this old issue after earing a podcast (from DotnetRocks, if I remember), where this concept was very well illustrated as: "9 women can't make a baby in 1 month".

Now seriously, I should now explain why this article is labeled as "architecture": it's because one of the goals we should pursuit when architecting and choosing methodologies should be the contention of the mythical man-month issue.