Thought experiment: Imagine we limit all development teams to one

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6 years ago

A lot of software would not be possible. So then imagine what would we need to make it possible to develop the things we need by only one person. We would need better tools and lib's.

Now to develop these tools and lib's, we still cant use more then one person, so they in turn need tools and lib's to make that work feasible. Keep building tools until eventually each project can be done by the team of one.

Every time a task becomes too big for someone, we don't hire someone to join them in completing the task, we hire someone to build the infrastructure to make the task manageable by one again. Management by locating pain points. Software development doesn't scale, but tools do.

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