It would be interesting, but not immediately scientific when it comes to measuring productivity. A larger structure is going to be less efficient than a small one (under most topologies) but can take on larger tasks. The individuals will have more specialization and decisions will take longer to arrive at.
What I would find interesting is a what is the slope of the line in terms of worker productivity as it varies with org size as the number of workers are added.
Having a bossless architecture is fine when there is lots of interesting engineering work to do. Coordination and direction is just overhead when the organism should just spread in every direction. But after some point it needs to move and find food.
" A larger structure is going to be less efficient than a small one (under most topologies) but can take on larger tasks. The individuals will have more specialization and decisions will take longer to arrive at."
This is the best brief simplification of organizational dynamics on scaling I've had the pleasure to read.
What I would find interesting is a what is the slope of the line in terms of worker productivity as it varies with org size as the number of workers are added.
Having a bossless architecture is fine when there is lots of interesting engineering work to do. Coordination and direction is just overhead when the organism should just spread in every direction. But after some point it needs to move and find food.