Eh. The medium is the message. There's a reason that the verbiage changes as you go from "Go Dog Go" to "Getting real" to "Reader's digest" to "The NY Times" to

Eh. The medium is the message. There's a reason that the verbiage changes as you go from "Go Dog Go" to "Getting real" to "Reader's digest" to "The NY Times" to "Nature". It's not all conceit on the part of the authors. Aside from that, 37signals tends to posit rules of thumb as if they were categoricals. http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch03_The_Three_Musketeers.php http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch03_The_Three_Musketeers.p... "For the first version of your app, start with only three people." This seems to assume that an audience consisting of programmers is ignorant of the facts that... 1) Multics started with a huge team. 2) Unix started with a team of three. 3) Linux started with a team of one. ...and so would presumably realize that no rule of thumb on the subject of team size can be made. In fact, successful projects have wildly varied geneses. Were I to make a rule, I would account for that fact and say, "Start with the best people you know, who are willing to commit to a project". Does this make more sense? Rest assured I am no genius for saying it. It's common sense. But it's common sense that 37signal's almost always consistently lacks, despite their 'tude for simplicity.