How big is the Team Java project compared to the Final year project?
The arithmetic calculation is this: • Final year project = 40 credits. • Team Java project = 4 students x 10 credits each = 40 credits worth of work. The arithmetic suggests a Team Java project should be the same size as the Final year project. . However, that is applying the falacy of “The Mythical Man-Month” (here, the “mythical student-credit”). The reality is more complicated, because there is an overhead in team members having to communicate with each other. On the other hand the project topic has been chosen for you and will not require the research or background read that is required for your final year project. This is in fact one of the most central problems of teamwork throughout the workplace. The payoff to be gained from teamwork is that you can put together the different skills of different people – different people are good at different things -, and you can also have different team members focusing on different aspects of the project and passing on what they learn to the
