@jethid
hot take: for a sufficiently innovative potential product, the tiniest teams are most likely to find the winning combination
imagine being J.K. Rowling writing the first draft of Harry Potter and you have a fully staffed team. you have:
- A "character director" who serves as the guardian of character consistency
- A "dialog designer" who specializes in high quality dialog between characters
- A "plot writer" who specializes in writing compelling subplots
- A "paragrapher" who typesets paragraphs into pleasing and not too lengthy segments
- A "chapter manager" who ensures chapters don't run too long and are appropriate in length
- A "Harry Potter" manager who leads a team responsible for fleshing out his motivations, his decisions, his character arc
- A "Hermione Granger" manager + team, ditto as Harry
- A "Mopsus" manager + team, who was managing a key character who got cut. Leading to a difficult conversation, many tears and lowered morale
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