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corollary adage: nine women cannot gestate and give birth to a baby in one month.


See Brooks' little-known sequel: The Mythical Woman-Month


But 9 women can give birth to one baby per month on average


Not really for a period longer than 9 months. Of course, you can have even 9 women deliver 9 babies in one month, but none in the following 10-12 months.


Retort: That's where you're wrong! If we hooked up nine mothers to one single faetus, we could get the job done in 9 months.[0] The same way, if we hooked up our dev teams to a lead that could delegate the work properly, we could pump out a Meltdown patch in around a month and a half.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/28/1205282109?sid=...


> Retort: That's where you're wrong! If we hooked up nine mothers to one single faetus, we could get the job done in 9 months.[0] The same way, if we hooked up our dev teams to a lead that could delegate the work properly, we could pump out a Meltdown patch in around a month and a half.

> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/28/1205282109?sid=....

Except this whole train of thought falls apart once you consider the difficulty of "hooking up 9 mothers to a single fetus". In the same way you down play the difficulty of coordinating multiple teams for a solution around breaking research. Show me a working solution of the former and I'll accept the corollary.




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