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To what concept does "the mythical man-month" refer?

  1. The code that would have been written last month if your project was on deadline

  2. The amount of code that you can produce in a month on your salary

  3. The fallacy that assigning more staff to a programming job will complete it faster

  4. The fact that like Sysiphus pushing the boulder you can never finish debugging
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Explanation

Coined by Fred Brooks in his book, "The Mythical Man-Month" refers to the fallacy that software project progress is perfectly scalable by adding more people, famously summarized as 'Brooks's Law': adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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