"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup
 

An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to hire 20 college student interns to get all their work done and quadrupling its productivity."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2327236/Mythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/10/2327236"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F03%2F10%2F2327236%2FMythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=%22Mythical+Man-Month%22+Supposedly+Busted+By+MIT+Startup%3A+http% 3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F8ZQeIW" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2327236/Mythical-Man-Month-Supposedly-Busted-By-MIT-Startup?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xnt0H_a-XzSeEPL1MstAFqXKYwk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xnt0H_a-XzSeEPL1MstAFqXKYwk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xnt0H_a-XzSeEPL1MstAFqXKYwk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xnt0H_a-XzSeEPL1MstAFqXKYwk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/8dtj0zw8Thg" height="1" width="1"/

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