Zooming Out: The First Challenge of a Growing Team

Matt Schellhas
11 min readJan 17, 2022

I would find it funny if it didn’t keep biting me in the ass.

As a group of people grows, it invariably runs into the problem where the amount of stuff going on surpasses any one person’s ability to keep up with it all. That group size limit varies of course depending on how much is going on, how many of those things are outside of someone’s expertise, and the capabilities of the person trying to grasp it all — but is near 10 for most people.

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