It doesn’t take 9 mothers 1 month to make a baby
First of all this post has nothing to do with babies. It is actually about an interesting phenomenon that affects house builders, software developers, the government and possibly all types of jobs. Without adding too much hype it's about Brooks' law, so those of you familiar with it can move on to the next post. Let's say you are a contractor and you currently employ 2 builders. Assuming the 2 builders work 40 hour weeks, you estimate that a house will be finished in 4 months' time. However for some reason the client isn't happy about this and would like the house to be built-in 2 months. In this case the contractor would employ another 2 builders thus doubling the productivity and finishing the house on time. If half way through…