you actually need to do the opposite and reduce your scope by shedding parts of your responsibility to enable new teams around them. This feels very counterintuitive after years of trying to gain additional scope. But the decision here is that you can either keep it all yourself and do a B job at it, or you can shed these areas to enable them to al... See more

Parkinson's law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

So no matter how many people you allocate to a task, they will feel busy.

Due to the excess of time, they'll start focusing on less important tasks.

Small teams help you avoid that.