> In our case, making two teams work independently on the same problem just created a situation where each team had half as many resources. You got it. Not to

> In our case, making two teams work independently on the same problem just created a situation where each team had half as many resources. You got it. Not to mention that you're incentivizing them to hoard work/attention/resources from one another, or engage in other organizational anti-patterns that would obviously be/become problems to solve if you didn't put the artificial "constraint" of internal competition in the way.