Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 18, 2008 @01:17AM from the head-to-heads dept.

peterofoz writes "You may recall that we discussed a company which was recruiting talent with a puzzle last December. This turned out to be n-Brain releasing a new product that allows multiple editors to modify the same code in real time to support the collaborative programming paradigm. Now they're back with another challenge: 'Are two heads really better than one? N-BRAIN, Inc. intends to definitively answer this question by sponsoring the Hydra Versus Dragon Coding Competition, a Reality TV-style battle between the world's finest software developers.' Mark June 23rd on your calendars." While n-Brain clearly intends this to promote their software, it will be interesting to see if the competition results support their theory of collaborative development.

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Re:Developers suffer from interruptions by turbidostato · 2008-05-18 04:04 · Score: 4, Informative

""The Mythical Man Month" points out that adding people to a project often/usually slows it down."

Does "stupidly stupid" exists? I'd say that's what you earned with such a claim.

As a previous answer to you post already stated, that would mean that the fastest project would be that with *no* resources at all asigned.

What the Mythical Man Month points out is that adding people to *an already delayed project* will usually delay it even more (due to the need to bring to speed the new resource). Quite a different thing.