Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Also a good pen is the report, we need three months for this, only to be told each week something else is more important. After the three month the question came is it finished now.
Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.
Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.
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The best way I’ve heard it said was “if a woman can make a baby in nine months, then nine women should be able to make a baby in one month, right?”
That’s in the book :)
Also a good pen is the report, we need three months for this, only to be told each week something else is more important. After the three month the question came is it finished now.
And so 2 Years turned to 6.