Recently someone said something like the following somewhere (on Twitter? A link would be much appreciated):
Instead of scaling up your team, try scaling down your problems.
How would scaling down large problems work? Wouldn’t we have to solve large problems by composing the solutions to small ones? Wouldn’t we need another small team for doing this composition? Wouldn’t this bring us full circle to some sort of large-scale agile approach? Wouldn’t this be exactly what we set out to avoid?
How do two-pizza teams collaborate? What about coordination? Direction? Guidance? Funding?
In brief, how do I actually, concretely, practically scale down my problems in enterprisey e-commerce environments? I don’t have the faintest clue, but I’m bloody well going to find out. I’m done with scaling up!
