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Software engineering

the claim that adding staff to a late software project makes it later, examined in system dynamics simulations of project staffing.

In software engineering, Brooks's law refers to the claim that adding staff to a late software project makes it later, examined in system dynamics simulations of project staffing. This meaning comes from Abdel-Hamid (1989) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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References

Abdel-Hamid, T. K. (1989). The dynamics of software project staffing: a system dynamics based simulation approach. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 15(2), 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/32.21738

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