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Is the size of the project you're working on typical? The wide range of project sizes means that you can't consider any single size to be typical. One way of thinking about project size is to think about the size of a project team. Here's a crude estimate of the percentages of all projects that are done by teams of various sizes:
One aspect of project size data that might not be immediately apparent is the difference between the percentages of projects of various sizes and the number of programmers who work on projects of each size. Because larger projects use more programmers on each project than do small ones, they employ a large percentage of all programmers. Here's a rough estimate of the percentage of all programmers who work on projects of various sizes:
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