• @limelight79@lemm.ee
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      91 year ago

      If one woman can give birth to a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can do it in one month.

      Heard that as an example of tasks that do not work in parallel in project management.

      • zout
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        61 year ago

        An engineer I worked with once yelled to a manager that “You can’t paint a toilet with ten people!”. I loved that guy, always had one-liners like these ready.

    • @FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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      81 year ago

      Reminds me of “when I was 6 my sister was half my age, now I’m 60. How old is my sister?” And the amount of people (myself included) that read it too fast and answered 30 was crazy