Not that I disagree with the point the author is trying to make vis-a-vis Brooks' Law, but there's another narrative at play here that I find more interesting.
> But someone nudged me: can't you have a look at it?
Clearly this person has some combination of thinking the people already looking don't know what they're doing, and the author being a technical person will be better at it.
From the author's side there is little interest in engaging, perhaps because of a desire not to feed the help vampires, or maybe the meeting is low enough value that an unintentional filibuster is not such a bad thing, or any number of other situational reasons that I can imagine but are not discernible from the context given. Human psychology is fascinating.
> But someone nudged me: can't you have a look at it?
Clearly this person has some combination of thinking the people already looking don't know what they're doing, and the author being a technical person will be better at it.
From the author's side there is little interest in engaging, perhaps because of a desire not to feed the help vampires, or maybe the meeting is low enough value that an unintentional filibuster is not such a bad thing, or any number of other situational reasons that I can imagine but are not discernible from the context given. Human psychology is fascinating.