Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 5, 2015 @09:36PM from the too-many-cooks dept.

StewBeans writes: The Mythical Man-Month is a 40-year old theory on software development that many believe still holds true today. It states: "A project that requires five team members to work for five months cannot be completed by a twenty-five person team in one month." Basically, adding manpower to a development project counterintuitively lowers productivity because it increases complexity. Citing the 2015 State of DevOps Report, Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud says that microservices architecture is proving this decades-old theory wrong, but that there is still some hesitation among IT decision makers. He points out three rookie mistakes to avoid for IT organizations just starting to dip their toes into agile methodologies.

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I love it by ruir · 2015-10-05 21:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Love the smell of coffee plus bullshit in the morning.
1. Re: I love it by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-05 22:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "The idea behind microservices is that some types of applications become easier to build and maintain when they are broken down into smaller, composable pieces which work together."
  Wow. No ever thought of that before.