This and the Ten Crack Commandments should be mandatory reading for all aspiring Techies.
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/software-engineering-laws.html
Currently living Conway’s law implementing a PO system. Honestly…it’s insanely, and ridiculously, true.
I’ve also lived through the mythical-man month many times. The solution out of that hole is to try to encourage your stakeholders to be more reductive in their requests and edit out features.
Also want to add Jeff Atwood’s law to the mix: “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”