A project was struggling to deliver in time and the project manager resolved it by reducing the team size where the typical approach is to increase the team size. This decision was based on the overhead of communication and Brooks Law.
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We have manuals and guides for the software we use. We have a manual for the car we drive. Why not the house?
In the book 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman he talks about an effect called “Spontaneous Trait Transference”.
There are a lot of sites that claim to be idea generators. Most of them turn out to be just a button you click that slings together a bunch of random words that are meant to then become a prompt to generate ideas.