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Adding people to a design effort does not simply add productivity.

Drawn from what Melvin Conway said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Melvin Conway actually said

  1. Melvin Conway Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent
    There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity.

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