Six plus or minus one
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…on a mission.
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To optimize team performance, team size is crucial.
Therefore:
Foster teams of six plus or minus one so they excel in communication saturation and collective team knowledge. Amplify with few roles.
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See:
- Jeff Sutherland's
- Small Teams
- Adding people to a late project makes it later (Brooks' Law)
- Borland story on Few Roles
- Performance = Communication Saturation = Collective Team Knowledge
- Daily meeting with few roles = high velocity
- Small Teams