Model: Ideal Team Size - "7+-2 for agile teams"
July 1st, 2019
What is the ideal team size? Agile answer is 7+-2
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go modular
remove dependencies - also in codebase
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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
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Scaling Teams Using Dunbar's number:
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(src: Book: Team Topologies - Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais)
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