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> Assuming that requires full team meetings, on a team of 8, it requires 8 times as many meetings for 8 people and each meeting taking up 8 times the number of

• ByteJockey 5y ago
  > Wait, I don't think that's how work and meetings work. I'm not including all of the things that come up that don't require a team meeting. But if we're assuming that something is discovered that requires a full team meeting by each employee roughly once a week (number pulled straight out of my ass, feel free to sub in your own, the math doesn't depend on this), that's 8 meetings a week for the 8 person team (totaling roughly 64 hours), and only 4/4 for the team of 4. This is, of course, assuming the rate of discovery of things discovered requiring a meeting remain constant as the team increases. In my experience, this is not the case, and it usually tends to increase as people lose track of what everyone else is doing, there's an increased need to "re-sync". I believe this increased need is what drives it from exponential (in my naive answer) to the combinatorial (in practice) increase people usually quote when throwing around Brooks' Law.