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Devon, a Project Manager is working on a software development project. He needs more coders to complete the project on time. As a result, he hires people and they are given on-the-job training by their coworkers. However, this significantly reduces the output of th team and leads to a delay in the project. The given scenario exemplifies:

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Answer: the mythical man-month effect

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The scenario given in the question above signifies the mythical man-month effect.

According to the mythical man-month effect, it explains that when more programmers are added to a particular project, this eventually led to a delay in the project.

Since we are told that Devon needs more coders to complete the project on time and therefore hired more people to complete the project but eventually led to a delay, thus signifies the mythical man-month effect.

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