The plan will begin with a demonstration fiber project in twelve Seattle neighborhoods and includes wireless methods to deploy services more quickly to other areas in the city.
Elance CMO Rich Pearson has seen the number of small businesses looking to bring on professionals with skills in web and mobile programming on a project basis skyrocket over the past twelve months, unsurprising since the tech challenge du jour seems to be developing and monetizing mobile without breaking the bank.
The basic premise that Brooks argues against is the notion that a software project that takes one person a year to complete (twelve person-months) can have its timeline shortened to a single month simply by staffing the project with a dozen engineers.