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Smaller Is Better — Particularly When It Comes To Dev Teams

By Jeremy Duvall, for The Forbes Technology Council

This story originally appeared on Forbes.com on June 9, 2021.


A two-person dev team from my firm once accomplished in two months what a 20-person team from an outsourcing vendor had failed to do in eight months. In so doing, we demonstrated a corollary of Brooks’ Law: When it comes to dev teams, smaller is better.