It is not necessarily a technical issue but many technical projects sometimes suffer from a project team that is too large. It usually happens when management has decided on a delivery date that cannot be met with the current amount of manpower and for some reason it is more logical to them to add more developers than to move the date. Realistically there are valid times when a date cannot move, but merely adding more developers usually gets to a point of diminished return rather quickly.
A good friend of mine was fond of saying “You can't get nine women and make a baby in a month.” Take the situation where y ...