<i>&quot;However it&#x27;s about scaling an already broken (and late) project in a very naive way.&quot;</i><p>If that&#x27;s all you remember of it, you really need to reread it (and I find myself mildly skeptical that you did in the first place - although it could very well be that it&#x27;s been long enough you thought those ideas were elsewhere).  The title - and Brooks&#x27; Law - is about that, but the book covers a whole lot more.  Including discussions of approaches to decomposing problems into &lt;10 person chunks and optimizing for minimum dependencies.