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Re: Taking the plunge. . .

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I believe your notion of "more bodies = better robot" is simply not true. Many very successful teams each year make do with relatively smaller teams. A 100 person team is much more difficult to manage than a smaller team because engaging 100 people is just that much harder.
Maybe I worded that wrong. A Larger team certainly does not "=" a better robot.

I wasn't saying that a larger team automatically makes a better robot, I was simply stating that having 15 motivated workers on a robot vs 7 motivated workers on a robot means that, in order to get the same result, the 7 must put in more time then the 15 in general, going back to my other point on time.

That being said, a huge team that isnt motivated vs a small team that is, Id pick the smaller.

100 is a BIG team though (that was a bad example), that I do see as possibly being hard to manage and could produce a lot of... "wanderers"

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