Productivity decreases as the company grows

On [#stanier-effective-manager], 11th chapter:

Productivity per capta decreases as the company grows. The author cites 202105071145 Brook's Law as a pointer to a good source of info (which is [#brooks-mythicalmm]).

This is a natural process since human coordination is hard and code gets outdated as soon as its deployed. To avert frustration over your team you should:

[#stanier-effective-manager]: Stanier, Dr. James. Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager. 1st ed. S.l.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2020. [#brooks-mythicalmm]: Brooks, Frederick P. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Anniversary ed. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1995.