Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
you actually dont get it. adding more people will not solve your problem with adding TWO WEEKS to a release schedule. adding more people actually tends to slow things down. maybe if you are digging a ditch or doing a barn raising adding more people will indeed help speed things up. things that require trained people, actually take far longer since you have to train the people up, teach them the systems, make sure they know how things are done. the list goes on

so, no, you don't get it, in software more people does not equate to faster, quite the inverse in fact.
no add more people over time make things faster. yes the next 2 patches take the extra time but then the next 2 be on time and have more things in them. i know this from my work. i did train people (15 of them) and i know how this works. but if you take the extra 2 weeks as a given now (3 + month in the over all expansion time) next time it be 5 month a patch (its 4 now and we started at 3 +-). 1 thing lots f peopel forget or never know is that the dev team love to slowly cut things.