What is the ideal team size? Agile answer is 7+-2
Model: Dunbar’s number - 5, 15, 50, 150
go modular
remove dependencies - also in codebase
That’s how many it takes to bring a project like this to the market.
- Book: Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull how Pixar managed to have great teamwork in big team ~200
When you get bigger than 7+-2 you still wanna have one team maybe multiple sub-teams but only 1 team goal nobody succeeds unless that one succeeds
(src: Video: The Scaling Dilemma - Mary Poppendieck)
Model: ideal team size
In most organizations, an effective team has a maximum size of around seven to nine people.
High-trust organizations may sustain larger teams.
Model: Dunbar’s number - 5, 15, 50, 150
Dunbar-compatible groupings
Scaling Teams Using Dunbar’s number:
(src: Book: Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais)
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