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Before There Was Management

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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. He figured he could not remember more than 100 names, so the department was limited to 100 people at one time.

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Grown-Up Lean

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As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. That’s when newly minted internet companies tried to grow systems many times larger than any enterprise could manage.