----- Original Message -----
From: Wouter van Ooijen <wf@XS4ALL.NL>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC development STINKS!


> > Sure some tasks like simulators etc are big and
> > need 1000's of
> > person hours, but if 1000 people each wrote a small module,
> > it would take no
> > more than 5 hours per person (assuming it would take one
> > person 2000 hours).
>
> No way, unless it is trivial software. In my experience productivity is
> more like the logarithmical than linear in the number of persons
> involved.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen

Actually in my experience the bigger the team the greater the chance that
you end up with some members that generate negative productivity. The really
good people end up chasing problems introduced by the really bad ones. On a
few occasions I have personally discovered people actively sabotaging a
project.

Regards
Sergio Masci

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