Refers to a 1968 paper by Mel Conway, that includes this phrase:
“Organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures in those organizations.”
Implies that the organization must be chosen to map to the intended architectural design.
Refers to Mel Brook’s 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month.
It states that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”.
Refers to findings by anthropologist Robin Dunbar:
A person can only trust around 15 people
Of those, only about 5 can be known and trusted closely
This gives a heuristic that ideal team size is around 5-8 people.
Describes four stages for a team lifecycle:
Forming: team is created
Storming: team figures out personalities and sorts out how to retail_international_products
Norming: team evolves to a standard way to operate
Performing:* team reaches high effectiveness