>If you're writing software
Yes, 100% yes.
Adding substantial resources can hugely speed up a project.
I will requisition the very best engineers, the best support staff, remove all financial bottlenecks, dedicate shadowing teams to work in isolation in parallel on the critical sections, etc.
> A classic of the software engineering industry, The Mythical Man Month, is all about this process.
First off, if i recall correctly, and it's probably been 20 years since I read it, that mostly applies to late projects that have already gone off the rails.
The broader point isn't true anyway.
We're way better at writing software than we used to be.
I've personally been on quite a few software projects where they became more strategic or promising than they initially seemed, and we threw more engineers at them to speed them up, and they sped up excellently.