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authorDave Kerr <dwmkerr@gmail.com>2019-05-19 21:29:00 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-05-19 21:29:00 +0800
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Merge pull request #94 from FaycalKhe/patch-1
Fixing grammar error
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@@ -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)'.