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Grown-Up Lean

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But the infrastructure VP invented ways for engineering teams to self-provision hardware and self-deploy software, which made it possible for teams to retain responsibility for any problems their services encountered once it went ‘live’, not just during development. (In Berkley is a close neighbor of Stanford, where Google was born.

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Before There Was Management

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A team that never exceeded 100 people designed and developed both the hardware and software that became the legendary Apple Macintosh.[3] 3] Another example: in a 2004 blog The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes , Christopher Allen noted that on-line communities tend to have 40 to 60 active members at any one time.

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