It's not precise, but it's pretty close when you look at the number of management and support positions to individual contributors in many techinal organization

It's not precise, but it's pretty close when you look at the number of management and support positions to individual contributors in many techinal organizations. It's beyond the scope of this conversation, but the short is that it seems to become a network effect problem. Every team does not work with every other team, but it does end up in a hub-and-spoke system with matrixes over the system. Oversight (ops, security, PMO) do not scale linearly because the competing priorities make scheduling more difficult. I've read others who have spoken about it, but I'd have to go back and find it.