Non Sequor on 19 June 2008
This isn't good because of a famous observation in software development:
Brooks's Law:
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
The reason for this is because any new people coming into a project midstream are useless until they're brought up to speed. This means that the people who have been working on the project have to interrupt their workflow to help the new people understand the state of the project.
Bringing in part time help would be even worse because they would never be completely up to date on the project.
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Non Sequor on 19 June 2008
cwbys21 said:
makingmusic476 said:
"When free"? If they're working on Versus, they wouldn't be free until the game is complete, right? |
Even though I'm not a game developer, logic says that they aren't doing the game in one big block. It is broken down into little bits. This person works on this, this person works on that etc. So if someone finishes their assignment early, instead of going to find the next assignment for ffv13, they pop over to the ff13 team and see what they can do there to help out.
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While software development is broken down into small tasks, it's never that easy in practice. *EVERYTHING* is interdependent. To finish one piece of a program you need to understand everything else it interacts with.
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