gang bang

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gang bang - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  gang bang
  
     The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an
     attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a
     short time.  Though there have been memorable gang bangs
     (e.g. that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in
     Steven Levy's "Hackers"), most are perpetrated by large
     companies trying to meet deadlines; the inevitable result is
     enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in
     orthogonality.  When market-driven managers make a list of
     all the features the competition has and assign one programmer
     to implement each, the probability of maintaining a coherent
     (or even functional) design goes infinitesimal.  See also
     firefighting, Mongolian Hordes technique, Conway's Law.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

gang bang - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  gang bang
   n.
  
     The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt
     to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though
     there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend
     assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's Hackers), and large numbers
     of loosely-coupled programmers operating in bazaar mode can do very
     useful work when they're not on a deadline, most are perpetrated by
     large companies trying to meet unrealistic deadlines; the inevitable
     result is enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in
     orthogonality. When market-driven managers make a list of all the
     features the competition has and assign one programmer to implement
     each, the probability of maintaining a coherent (or even functional)
     design goes to epsilon. See also firefighting, Mongolian Hordes technique
     , Conway's Law.