That's easy to say when there's only five. The problem is, that doesn't scale. At some point you need to proactively implement a culture (and M&Ps) that does scale. If you wait til you need then you run the risk of having waited too long. Veteran team members will be put off, new hires will be updating their CV.
Maybe instead of struggling to apply management concepts to the development process, companies would achieve more by breaking things up into 6-person sized teams.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864034/#!po=1....
How do you coordinate the six person teams, prevent them from ending up in contention, etc.?
“Developers with nothing to do become disruptive or lazy.”
So the trick is to pat yourself on the back for being so good at hiring (but please recognize that if your genius hires aren’t worked to 100% capacity they will suddenly become a problem) and then make sure they never have any downtime.
Seems easy enough.