Small teams - to build better products

As the company has grown - it seems to me that the ability to move has basically come to a grinding halt. Today I heard that for some development projects - with teams of only 3 to 7 or so..

Perhaps this should be an across the board thing? Perhaps we should eschew the massive product centric organization that has been "leading" for the last decade. What would happen if we really put engineers back into having a major say in how a product works, looks and behaves. (don't ask me to create icons though).

I wish that we had a platform that would allow for more development risk as well. It seems that we've built a new system of software that requires very high certainty of quality in order to field an alpha or beta -- so that we are pretty sure we don't break what is already deployed. This quality alone prevents quick iteration and feedback loops from a userbase.

Oh yeah --- Roy, still deleting my mail?