Does your manager think, he can increase total prodouctivity if he adds a new person with you?

Management is a pain with deadlines.

If your manager tries to multiply the productivity of the software development process by simply adding a new software engineer work with you, he is concerning about dividing the work among you. It is not stupid to think that software engineers work like robots do. Non technical manager does not know how difficult it will be to integrate the works of different people, and make a final output.

A team leader has to constantly monitor all the programmers and assemble every files and source codes written by different programmers, to shape a final software. This makes a manager too free from the most difficult task. But, when the system in a whole is working in a wrong process and steps, the chances of completing the project on a time is too low. Then, to minimize the possible loss, the project manager thinks of getting a new person for you to work with. He means to complete the tasks sooner, but does not mean how a leader handles the new colleague.

Members of the development team are bound to a certain rules, and conduct a common practice of writing the source code. They come over a longer experience and have well set the idea about how the whole project looks like. As the time passes, these members get experienced with the running project. If the manager does not monitor all these steps continuously, s/he is likely to fail to meet the predefined time.

So, the idea to add a new member at the end of the project erupts. But it is really an irritating concept for the team leader. Who cares about educating the new staff? Who cares about telling all the methods and conventions followed? Who cares about maintaining the file/folder structures? And, how the new member can adapt to the matured project going to be accomplished?

Software project workers are not a car producing robots. If you add more robots, spaces and metal, more cars would be products, but no more software!