Originally posted by tmpdir
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However, to stay with your analogy: You may not be able to speed up a single pregnancy, but you can improve "throughput". Lets say you want to have 10 babies. With a single female this would take you approximately 15-20 years (considering you shouldn't have pregnancies one right after the other). However, with 10 females you could have 10 babies in a single year. Which means with 10 developers you can add 10 features in a single release, whereas a single developer might only add one
// please don't take this post too seriously
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