feat: brooks's law

Closes #31. Thanks [rheh](https://github.com/rheh)!
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- [rheh](https://github.com/rheh) - Suggestion - Brooks's Law

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* [Introduction](#introduction) * [Introduction](#introduction)
* [Laws](#laws) * [Laws](#laws)
* [Brooks's Law](#brookss-law)
* [Conway's Law](#conways-law) * [Conway's Law](#conways-law)
* [Hofstadter's Law](#hofstadters-law) * [Hofstadter's Law](#hofstadters-law)
* [The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)](#the-law-of-conservation-of-complexity-teslers-law) * [The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)](#the-law-of-conservation-of-complexity-teslers-law)
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And here we go! And here we go!
### Brooks's Law
[Brooks's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law)
> Adding human resources to a late software development project makes it later.
This law suggests that in many cases, attempting to accelerate the delivery of a project which is already late, by adding more people, will make the delivery even later. Brooks is clear that this is an over-simplification, however the general reasoning is that given the ramp up time of new resources and the communication overheads, in the immediate short-term velocity decreases. Also, many tasks may not be divisible, i.e. easily distributed between more resources, meaning the potential velocity increase is also lower.
The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks's Law, in particular the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable.
See also:
- [Death March](#todo)
### Conway's Law ### Conway's Law
[Conway's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law) [Conway's Law on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law)