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A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.

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Subjectteam size
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team size How many people a thing needs, and what the extra ones cost: headcount, coordination, and the small-team claim.

Mental modelConway's law

What Thuan Pham actually said

  1. Thuan Pham Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020
    every feature that we want to put out has to be queued up on mobile development bandwidth dispatch bandwidth and it become impossible to navigate tradeoff because every feature you want to do you have to go negotiate with so many team

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:48:14 plays here

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com

    1 Apr 2026 · video · 1h 39m · spoken · machine transcript

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