Others have already pointed out how absolutely retarded this is, and have explained how "Brooke's Law" has not in any way been understood.
Large project productivity does not scale linearly with the number of developers working on it.
It's not _just_ communication, either. Large software is complex.

The capital 'W' makes skins crawl and is reserved for the stock ticker.

I'd mod you up if I had points, because I agree so strongly.

Yep; working. Part of the definition of enterprise-quality software.