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How CTOs Use the Concept of Cognitive Load to Structure Teams
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how CTOs use cognitive load theory to design engineering teams and systems. They start with a concrete example: a team at a mid-sized SaaS company that was drowning in context-switching because they owned a sprawling monolith. The discussion covers the difference between intrinsic, extraneous, and germane load, and how a CTO might measure team overload. They cite research on the limits of working memory and contrast it with team-level capacity. The episode also touches on how the concept pairs with platform teams, the inverse Conway maneuver, and the…
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