“…The paper formalises these relationships as equations. Previous work on software engineering estimation has focused on fitting equations to existing data to attempt to capture the relationship between effort and completion time [2,8,11,15,16,25,30]. This paper uses search-based optimization techniqueswhich have recently been applied to software project estimation and planning [4,5,7,12] -to explore the impact of different formulations of Brooks' law upon optimal project allocations, and optimise project attributes such as completion time.…”