How to stop overcommunication

Spolsky's latest piece is about Brook's law, and how adding people to projects can make them worse.

For those unfamiliar, Brook's law states that when you add a person, you geometricly increase the amount of communication people of the project have to do, suggesting it's a bad idea.

While I agree with the law, there are important exceptions I've identified -  depending who the person in question is (elite or bozo), how good they are at jumping in tough territory (ninja or bozo),  and how much t...