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"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

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  • 2
    I thought that number of devs was inversely proportional to number of days required to complete the project
  • 2
    ...if they are working in the same project.
  • 0
    It's only logical ^- -^=v
  • 0
    So true :-D
  • 6
    Probably longer. Code Reviews, meetings, clashing coding styles.... I love the analogy of 'if 1 women can have a baby in 9 months, 9 women can have a baby in 1 month'
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    Also, I was working on a project as a sole dev, and we were going to get a front end dev so I could focus on backend. After 3 meetings with this person (an 1.5 hours each over the span of 3 weeks) and they still hadn't started the project, I was like, shit... I could have just done it myself.
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