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Price's Law (more of an observation than a law) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%27s_law impacts and software with large teams are no exception. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34736936 )

50% of the output is produced by the square root of the team size.

In bloated organizations, there is a lot of fat to cut.

> In bloated organizations, there is a lot of fat to cut.

A tautology, and therefore devoid of information.

If you had claimed "In very large organizations...", you might have been saying something.

> In bloated organizations, there is a lot of fat to cut.

The problem is that the bigger and more bloated a company is, the harder it becomes to tell what is fat and what isn’t.

> the bigger and more bloated a company is, the harder it becomes to tell what is fat and what isn’t

In fact, this condition might be the cleanest definition of "bloat".