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A Cautionary Tale of Parachuting Cats Helps Explain Why Adding More Developers to a Project Can Make It Later
Today's solutions are tomorrow's problems
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken
Software development is a complex system of interrelated entities. In this scenario, the common short-term approach and sticking plaster solutions cause more problems than they solve.
The short-term solution cause problems that will appear later (after a delay), in some situations the cure can be worse than the disease.
the short-term symptom fixing approach of software projects results in problem shifting and project failures.
Software development is a system of subsystems.
Cats in Borneo
Watch the video. It’s an entertaining few minutes — Systems thinking: a cautionary tale (cats in Borneo)
The Dayak people of Borneo had an outbreak of malaria. They called the WHO (world health organisation) who sprayed DDT (insecticide), which killed the mosquitoes and fixed the Malaria problem.
