[lgriffith]

"...you have to find ways for the larger team to work together and still produce a quality product. "

I am not sure its possible. The communication overhead of so many linkages forces incoherence. The resultant incoherence forces still more additions to process and body count. That adds still more communication overhead. The result is still more incoherence - not less. If something is "finished", its simply because time, money, resources, and toleration ran out. The end result was simply called "done".

Maybe that is the best we can do but I am hard pressed to call products produced that way quality products. See Vista et.al. for instructive detail.