Good cooking fakes time. If you are made to wait, it is to
serve you better, and to please you.
MENU OF RESTAURANT ANTOINE. NEW ORLEANS

Quote from

The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks

https://archive.org/details/mythicalmanmonth00fred

Delay is the most wide problem in IT. There are multiple causes.
In 1975, this  book was one of the first to postulate that You cannot “solve an IT problem” 10x faster by throwing 10x more developers at it.

An interesting reaction to the problems presented in the MMM is Atomic design (in interfaces), which gave us React, among other things

https://hackernoon.com/react-and-the-mythical-man-month-5ac12ba91f34

A shorter paper,  No Silver Bullet, is a good way to start with the MMM

No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1663532

Downloadable without registration here: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.117.315