236 sats \ 5 replies \ @fiatjaf 14 Sep 2022 \ on: I'm Steve Lee, lead of Spiral. AMA. bitcoin
How much time loss there is for each new developer added to a team? For example, if 1 developer produces an output of 1, 2 developers produce 1.9? And 30?
Most founders I talk to say 1 dev -> 2 devs yields 1.5x output. I suspect dev output scales logarithmically with the number of devs, ie every dev reduces the output of all the others, until you start adding managers.
Communication just scales really poorly so it makes sense from that perspective. If you have N devs, there are N(N−1)/2 relationships.
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What if instead of managers you just hire more developers?
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It depends on whether they're working on LNURL or bolt12 ;-)
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Oh please, I was expecting a serious answer!
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