Eric Renaud wrote:

> The prime effective operating size of a team is 5-8 members; and that's not 
> anecdotal.
> Beyond that size becomes ungainly.  Imagaine the number of permutations in 
> communication channels alone.

Absolutely. This is another reason why we should split up things into more 
sub-projects and more lists. Each of which is manageable. From my 
experience, the number 5-8 sounds about right.

> the complexity involved grows inherently - and almost exponentially.

It grows quadratically, but that's still pretty fast. Faster than people 
expect. I've been working on a set of graphics to illustrate this. I'm not 
done, but I can show you what I have:

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/distributed-development.sxd

Cheers,
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