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Huh. Compared to the giant clusterfuck of bullshit and poor management I deal with GitHub sounds like paradise. Imagine your manager saying no!
"Funding to capacity,"

> Take your top priority and put as many developers on it as you can—until they're literally stepping on each other's toes. Only then should you move on to the next priority.

sounds like what Fred Brooks warned about in The Mythical Man Month: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later [1]. What am I missing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law#:~:text=Brooks%...

At a certain point, you go past stepping on toes to plain standing in the way. There is a fine line between not enough and too many people working on something.