Scaling
What breaks at every size, and what to fix first.
A stage-by-stage field guide from five engineers to a few hundred, including the failure modes that arrive right on schedule.
intro
What breaks at every size
Org failures arrive on a schedule. Knowing which one is next turns a crisis into a maintenance task you did early.
0-5 · 5-20 · 20-50 · 50-150 · 150+
core
From five to twenty
This is where informal coordination stops working. Add the smallest amount of structure that a repeated failure has already justified, and not one increment more.
5-20