Agile Anti-Patterns
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agile-antipatterns
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Brooks’ Law is a very common<br />
project management antipattern<br />
“Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.”<br />
– Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)<br />
“Brooks’ Law” describes a bad<br />
situation that a lot of teams<br />
find themselves in. It’s one of<br />
the most common project<br />
management antipatterns.<br />
Even though it’s called a “law,”<br />
it doesn’t really apply to every<br />
project. But we recognize the<br />
basic truth in it from our own<br />
project experiences—that’s<br />
what makes it an antipattern.<br />
an • ti • pat • tern, noun<br />
An approach to a problem that is frequently used but usually ineffective