##  [Brooks' Law](/brooks-law) 

  ##  [Brooks' Law](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/brooks-law-0) 

  

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**Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

An empirical managerial observation in software engineering that adding additional personnel to a project that is behind schedule tends to increase its delay, primarily because of increased communication overhead, necessary training/onboarding and the limited divisibility of remaining tasks.