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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by drbojingle on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:35AM (#18960259)
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback!

> There's no clear cut off for anything in managing a software team. It's not a science, and individual situations vary too much to create hard and fast rules.

Intuitively, I disagree. There's a lot of nuance for sure but, but there are still patterns that can be noticed.

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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by smt88 on Monday January 21, 2019 @10:03AM (#18960791)
There may be patterns, but who says they're good patterns? I see more badly-run teams than well-run teams.
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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by drbojingle on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:17AM (#18961310)
Out of curiosity, from your perspective, is there anything that the bad teams share that the well run teams don't and vice versa?
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