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>From The Desk Of Terry Lambert :
> > > What I am looking for is for experienced programmers that can 
> > > come in and do the "job" -- the job being defined as a cool
> > > document program.
> > 
> > That job is about 3 man-years worth of work.
> 
> Cool.  If he can get 365 volunteers (and one leap-volunteer 8-))
> then he can be done in 3 days.

Actually, 9 pregnant women can not deliver one baby in a month. 


"Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks  first published in 1975.

For those interested the book is about managing large scale projects.

Reducing complex problems is not the same as throwing bodies at 
a project.

	Cheers,
	Amancio