Model: Ideal Team Size

What is the ideal team size? Agile answer is 7+-2









inner circle
3-5
very close friends or family members
sympathy group
7-10
close friends who care about each other's fate
hunting group
30-50
collegues who care about each other's fate
-how much it takes to achieve a goal
clan
100-150
people who maintain stable inter-personal relationships
-everybody knows eachother
-peer pressure works
tribe
500-2500
people who speak the same language or dialect






go modular
remove dependencies - also in codebase





That's how many it takes to bring a project like this to the market.




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


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