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Price’s law is widely quoted in management training and consulting, but it wasn’t a great fit for the data he was originally publishing, and it’s an empirical o
by aardvark179 4y ago
Price’s law is widely quoted in management training and consulting, but it wasn’t a great fit for the data he was originally publishing, and it’s an empirical observation rather than hard and fast fundamental fact.
Contributions almost certainly follow some sort of discrete power distribution, but that doesn’t mean you’ll hit a comfortable state at four people where everything has evened out nicely.
- orthoxerox 4y agoBut it still works as a rule of thumb: if your department has 100 people and you want to double its productivity, hiring 100 more people won't help. You have to hire around 300 more people if you don't change the way the department works.