Throwing more people at a software problem isn't a viable solution to meet a deadline. Obviously there is benefit to adding more people, it's just that that be

Throwing more people at a software problem isn't a viable solution to meet a deadline. Obviously there is benefit to adding more people, it's just that that benefit takes time to offset the cost of onboarding. Communication does place an upper limit on the number of people who can work on a specific project, and later the total number of projects that can interact. Something exploratory like what what the GP was suggesting doesn't require huge teams or a lot of interaction between teams, at least until the problems are identified and need to actually be resolved.