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- the customer is ready to receive the product,
- any delays at that point is going to increase the cost of the system dramatically,
- and it is going to reduce the confidence of the customer.
One other problem with the scheduling of software projects is that software managers often estimate the completion time of the projects according to the desired date of the customers.
Instead of making the schedules realistic they try to match what the customer wants and therefore get into trouble later.
Brooks' Law:
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
The number of months of a project depends upon its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends upon the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities one can derive schedules using different number of men and months.