Efficiency Paradox: Understanding Brooks' Law in Software Engineering

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're working on a project that's already running late, and you think that adding more people to the team will speed things up? It might seem like a good idea, but it can actually make things worse and delay the project even more. This idea is known as Brooks' Law, named after a computer scientist named Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr., who said that "adding more people to a late software project makes it even later."

In this article, we will delve...