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Software projects at least don't scale linearly, doubling your 3 man team doesn't double output. It's not a stretch to say that having 10x money and manpower wo
by chillacy 10y ago
Software projects at least don't scale linearly, doubling your 3 man team doesn't double output. It's not a stretch to say that having 10x money and manpower won't scale your engineering project that far, and may even hurt it as you add managerial layers and politics.
- tassos 10y agoThat seems like an answer to a different question. All of Apple's output is not a single engineering project.
- chillacy 10y agoIt's an analogy. All of apple's output is maybe 10 products so even if apple had perfect vertical organization (which they don't, they have a functional organization around tech layers), they're still already putting thousands of people on a product. There are diminishing returns to packing more people in.
- tassos 10y agoI don't question that, to quote yourself "There are diminishing returns to packing more people in". I do question that this, or their organizational structure explain their execution in recent years.