"Steven Sinofsky recalls that The Mythical Man-Month was standard reading for Microsoft software engineers, yet executives still asked whether assigning more resources could speed constrained cross-group projects."
Sinofsky recounts a December 2000 Microsoft decision in which Bill Gates asked whether more resources could accelerate a troubled Outlook-Exchange project, while the engineering team explicitly recognized Brooks's warning about work that cannot simply be accelerated by adding people.
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