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An old employer of mine that I fired was full to the brim of people who genuinely thought that nine women could make a baby in one month.
Like techies we pointed out that nine women could average one baby per month if that what they wanted over nine months but it requires another nine months of planning first.
They didn't get it. Just kept hiring fixed term contractors to "increase velocity".
The worst port of it was when my team was just the small internet hippy department that no one took seriously we never had these problems, then we got promoted to "proper department" and lost everything.
Exactly! You actually CAN have 50 people finish something 50x faster, but it takes a shitload of planning, and that equals time and money no company I have ever worked for, or even known of, would allocate to something that isn't generating immediate income.
Take the Hoover Dam for example: Dsigned over 3 ish years and built in 5, at a time when nothing that huge had ever been made before, at less than a billion in today money, and 2 years ahead of schedule. It's 90 years old.
IIRC the Empire State Building was built "agile".
Something about making things in that early 20th C. period of the USA was amazing.