# Sizing engineering teams

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## What Jamie wrote

Good overview of how to think about team size. I’d agree with all of it.

> These questions were the gateway to the obscure art of organizational design. As I've gotten more exposure, I've come to believe the fundamental challenge of organizational design is sizing teams.

I have come to learn there is a lot more to organizational design than just this, but it is one important aspect of it.

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