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Recently I had a chance to quote this Koan explaining why I think a certain project went way over its original budget.



To management? I'd be very interested to hear how that went over.


Fortunately not exactly. It was such a massive project that everyone from my current team touched (or actually was touched by) it - including our current tech lead who had the misfortune of being assigned there briefly.

The topic came up on one of the introductory meetings and we shared our respective theories.

My take was that had this project had half the staff, it would take half the time to complete.

All and all there were over twenty people there doing daily standups.




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