The 2012 Community Council had Scott Rosenberg, the author of "Deaming in Code" come and talk about software development in general and the open source Chandler project.
Software is Hard, ambiguity is a problem - getting everyone to interpret communications the same way, testing is hard...
Productivity varies greatly, go for fewer good programmers.
Projects actually spend their time this way: 1/2 Bug Fixing; 1/3 Planning; 1/6th Coding
16% of software projects are on time and on budget.
"Oversimplifying outrageously... Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month.
See also Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (ISBN 0-932633-43-9) is a popular 1987 book, written by software consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, on the inside world of software developing teams, in a manner such as to highlight the real-world conflicting natures between individual work perspective and corporate ideology. Topics include team jelling, group chemistry, corporate entropy, flow time, "teamicide" and workspace theory (for optimization).
And "The Art of Project Management" by Scott Berkun
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