YOUR TEAM HAS A CONTEXT WINDOW

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Every human has a limited context window they can hold in their 'working memory' to make informed decisions. This is also true for teams: they have a shared body of knowledge, code, docs, relationships, and assumptions they must keep active to plan, build, and operate. When that collective window gets too big, the team slows down, fragments, and eventually malfunctions. The fix is a deliberate shrinking and shaping of the context window so the team can think again.