Making the point about Brooks’ Law
Mike Morton, a long-time friend and colleague and a Master of Anagrams, send me a link to a great story about a group of IT engineers dealing with a CEO who just didn’t understand Brooks’ Law:
After failing to win several arguments on this point, the engineers became exasperated and decided to hold an intervention with the CEO. They each bought a copy of Brooks’ book, brought the CEO into a conference room, and stacked up the copies of the book, telling him, It is extremely urgent that you read this book. We’ve bought you many copies so that you might read it faster. They made their point.
I can think of several times in the past 15 years where I would like to have used that approach. ..bruce..
Category: Information Technology, Project Management