Add skills not people to your cross-functional teams

Balancing roles vs. skills in your cross-functional teams.

Balancing roles vs. skills in your cross-functional teams.

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TL;DR — we know from Brooke’s law that the more people you add to your team, the more communication pathways there are and the greater impact it has on trust levels (see Dunbar’s work etc.)

Communication overhead increases as the number of people increases. Due t…