Map Legend
Team Members
Each node represents a person in the team.
Communication Channels
Required information pathways
Coordination Effort
Actual information flow between members
Each node represents a person in the team.
Required information pathways
Actual information flow between members
Formulated by Fred Brooks in his 1975 classic "The Mythical Man-Month", this principle highlights the counterintuitive effect of adding more people to a delayed software project—it often causes even greater delays.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Nine women can't have a baby in one month
Where C(n) represents the number of unique communication channels for n team members, meaning that as the team grows, interactions increase rapidly.