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.