David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

It was never 200.

Yes.

Because humans don't scale.

Communication between humans certainly don't scale.

You basically get the network cost effect.

Every time you add a new node, it goes up exponentially.

This is perhaps the key thing of why I get to be so fond of having no managers at Basecamp because our default team size is two.

One programmer, one designer, one feature.

When you're operating at that level of scale, you don't need sophistication.

You don't need advanced methodologies.

You don't need multiple layers of management because you can just do.

The magic of small teams is that they just do.

They don't have to argue because we don't have to set direction.

We don't have to worry about the roadmap.

We can just sit down and make something and then see if it's good.

When you can get away with just making things, you don't have to plan.

And if you can get out of planning, you can follow...

The truth that emerges from the code, from the product, from the thing you're working on in the moment.

You know far more about what the great next step is when you're one step behind.

Rather than if you try 18 months in advance to map out all the steps.