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I agree and would expand that argument to say that add that head count doesn't scale linearly. That is adding people to a project means that you have to add ev
by Lio 4y ago
I agree and would expand that argument to say that add that head count doesn't scale linearly. That is adding people to a project means that you have to add even more people to deal with the management complexity.
I guess that theoretically it's possible to have a productive very large organisation but it's really hard to do that compared with the simplicity of a smaller team.
- pieterr 4y agoThat is adding people to a project means that you have to add even more people to deal with the management complexity. Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month (1975)
- Lio 4y agoYep that's exactly what I had in mind. It's like a fundamental law of project management that for some reason still gets ignored a lot today.
- ghaff 4y agoExactly. You can obviously do things with a small team but, if you want to go beyond that, you start to accrete a lot of headcount that's to some degree just a function of having a larger organization that can't work on the basis of every knows everyone and what their role is.
- naijaboiler 4y agoIt may take 2 people to do 100 units of work. To do 200, takes 10 people.