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Originally Posted by davidthefat
That may be true, but you have to consider the scale of their job, its international, it requires that many people. You got to think, they also have to balance their number of employees... Now if they hire too many, they would eventually start losing money through salary and other expenses for the employees. They also lose productivity along the line. Too little amount of people makes it harder for teh employees to do the work.
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No, that quote comes from a book called
The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. It deals specifically with teams of programmers working on one project. It comes from when you are behind on a project and management decides to bring in "fresh blood" to help speed up the project. This actually slows down the project due to training and organizational overhead involved in managing new programmers.*
For a FRC team, training should be taken care of during the off season and a plan for managing the number of students should already be in place and taken into account when making your schedule for the year. In short, Brooks' law should not apply to a FRC team with good leadership and organization.
*Not my opinion, this was a discussion from my course on Software Engineering.