200-2000 person projects may be what the big guys do but that does not mean it's a good idea. There's bound to be massive inefficiency with large numbers of de

200-2000 person projects may be what the big guys do but that does not mean it's a good idea. There's bound to be massive inefficiency with large numbers of developers working on the same project. The resulting software will reflect the complicated political structures required to organize that many people and will suffer greatly for it. Small teams are the most successful at producing quality software in a reasonable time frame regardless of problem complexity.