Carolina QuotesBrooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks Carolinian
Source
Page 25 (italics in source, bold added).
- work
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)
- year
- 1975
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