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author | Dave Kerr <dwmkerr@gmail.com> | 2019-05-19 21:29:00 +0800 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-05-19 21:29:00 +0800 |
commit | 64640cbe1ad6081f561548b0108cc904a5286272 (patch) | |
tree | 2058b95aeed73f91073bc4f08c057f4d5a8cb49d | |
parent | fef5ed33d9d19aa4eeafe93e4550723107ccbf36 (diff) | |
parent | cbfe0d4ee46867e9f1e1cdfe4f04c6b98858548a (diff) |
Merge pull request #94 from FaycalKhe/patch-1
Fixing grammar error
-rw-r--r-- | README.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. * [Introduction](#introduction) * [Laws](#laws) * [Amdahl's Law](#amdahls-law) - * [Brooks's Law](#brookss-law) + * [Brooks' Law](#brookss-law) * [Conway's Law](#conways-law) * [Hanlon's Razor](#hanlons-razor) * [Hofstadter's Law](#hofstadters-law) @@ -67,18 +67,18 @@ As [Moore's Law](#moores-law) slows, and the acceleration of individual processo See also: -- [Brooks's Law](#brookss-law) +- [Brooks' Law](#brookss-law) - [Moore's Law](#moores-law) -### Brooks's Law +### Brooks' Law -[Brooks's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law) +[Brooks' Law on Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law) > Adding human resources to a late software development project makes it later. This law suggests that in many cases, attempting to accelerate the delivery of a project which is already late, by adding more people, will make the delivery even later. Brooks is clear that this is an over-simplification, however, the general reasoning is that given the ramp up time of new resources and the communication overheads, in the immediate short-term velocity decreases. Also, many tasks may not be divisible, i.e. easily distributed between more resources, meaning the potential velocity increase is also lower. -The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks's Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable. +The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks' Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable. This is a central theme of the book '[The Mythical Man Month](#reading-list)'. |