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"Specialization provides efficiency" is definitely not a general purpose truth. Specialization can just as easily cause inefficiency.



Specialization provides loads of communication (or lack of it) between those specialist. Alas, every time the team I was on was doing some soul-searching it came up that the main problem was communication. Don't underestimate the effect of communication overhead and the cost of miscommunication.




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