&gt; First: Read the Mythical Man Month<p>I have, it&#x27;s a brilliant book. Helped me greatly during my career. However it&#x27;s about scaling an already broken (and late) project in a very naive way.<p>Luckily we&#x27;ve learnt a lot since then - and it turns out that decomposing the problem into 4-6 person chucks and optimizing for minimum dependencies is a good strategy to close-to-linear scalability :)