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I agree. But I would also say they do have a rather largeish dev team: https://github.com/about/team https://github.com/about/team. Like 50-80 devs maybe? That

I agree. But I would also say they do have a rather largeish dev team: https://github.com/about/team https://github.com/about/team. Like 50-80 devs maybe? Thats like 12-20 teams of four people each. Plus they have some really productive people on their team, several people are/were core contribs to Rails. I guess one would expect with that many high quality people that a decent amount of work would be getting done.

kneath 14y ago
Our team makeup is almost entirely "devs" (I call them Engineers — people who design, build, and ship software). A lot closer to 120 than 80. However your estimates a pretty far off in terms of people who work on dotcom — that number is much closer to 15. One of the more interesting sociological problems of software to me is this idea that more people equals faster movement. The only studies in this field prove the opposite, yet common opinion is simply that: more people equals more output. We've actually spent a great deal of effort not growing our team lately, much of which has directly contributed to an increase in pace. I would credit our pace far more to the organizational structures we've created within our company (ex: http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-constraints http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...) than the size of our team.
- arikfr 14y ago
  What the other engineers work on? (Besides the enterprise version)
  - bkbleikamp 14y ago
    A few of the other projects that people are working on: GitHub for Mac, GitHub for Windows, libgit2, internal tools, ops, Gist, Git
mbesto 14y ago
I'll just leave this right here: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-Edition/dp/0932633439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359107252&sr=8-1&keywords=peopleware http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-...
- swah 14y ago
  Just picked this one from the library. Around here, few people know it (Brazil).

kneath 14y ago

Our team makeup is almost entirely "devs" (I call them Engineers — people who design, build, and ship software). A lot closer to 120 than 80. However your estimates a pretty far off in terms of people who work on dotcom — that number is much closer to 15. One of the more interesting sociological problems of software to me is this idea that more people equals faster movement. The only studies in this field prove the opposite, yet common opinion is simply that: more people equals more output. We've actually spent a great deal of effort not growing our team lately, much of which has directly contributed to an increase in pace. I would credit our pace far more to the organizational structures we've created within our company (ex: http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-constraints http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...) than the size of our team.

arikfr 14y ago
What the other engineers work on? (Besides the enterprise version)
- bkbleikamp 14y ago
  A few of the other projects that people are working on: GitHub for Mac, GitHub for Windows, libgit2, internal tools, ops, Gist, Git

mbesto 14y ago

I'll just leave this right here: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-Edition/dp/0932633439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359107252&sr=8-1&keywords=peopleware http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-...

swah 14y ago
Just picked this one from the library. Around here, few people know it (Brazil).