Question

Jacob was assigned recently to a large team working on a major software release that was taking longer than expected. Jacob 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 many other programmers, Jacob'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

Answer 1

Brook's law

Step-by-step explanation:

Brook's law postulates that adding manpower late to a software project increases the time of project completion rather than shorten it. This law was postulated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month.

Adding new personnel to a project takes the attention of other personnel from the project to training new personnel. This would increase the time for project completion. This is referred to as the ramp up time

As more manpower is added to the project, communication overhead increases. this increases the time for project completion as more time would be spent on communication rather than on carrying out the project