Barry's Software Development Team Barry was assigned recently to a large team working on a major software release that was taking longer than expected.Barry and the other latecomers into the project spent a month partnered with a senior programmer who went over the project in detail with them and got them up to speed.Unfortunately, this training put the project even farther behind schedule.After a few months of working on the project with so many other programmers, Barry's work output becomes noticeably lower than it was before when he was working independently.The loss of work time on the project because of the training is known as:
A)process gain.
B)the cost of doing business.
C)Brook's law.
D)mythical man-hours.
E)immeasurable results.

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The main problem with teams is that they have additional costs called process losses-resources (including time and energy) expended toward team development and maintenance rather than the task.The software industry even has a name for the problems of adding people to a team: Brooks's law (also called the "mythical man-month") says that adding more people to a late software project only makes it later!

Barry's Software Development Team Barry Was Assigned Recently to a Large