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Mongolian Hordes technique
n. [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression Mongolian clusterfuck for a public orgy] Development by gang bang. Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed by a few skilled ones (but see bazaar ). Also called Chinese Army technique ; see also Brooks's Law.