Joe Little does a marvelous job recruiting speakers for the Agile-Carolinas meetings. This month was no exception. Israel Gat from BMC Software discussed “Leading the Disruption”. This presentation focused on releases 2.3 and 2.4 of their distributed system management software. Near the presentation’s end Brooks’ Law was mentioned and the question posed, “Does Brooks’ Law still apply?” Adding manpower to a late project makes it later. ”Brooks’ Law” Why is it so? Jerry (Gerald M.) Weinberg chose to use Brook’s Law in Quality Software Management: