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Is there any example where this works (articles, presentations, etc)? In particular, anywhere with more than a couple dozen developers?

• dodobirdlord 7y ago
  Amazon has a famous love for what they call “two-pizza teams” and you can find writeups about the philosophy by searching the term. The joke is that a team should be small enough that you only need to order two pizzas to feed them all. The philosophy is about the number of participants in the decision-making process. Keep teams small and give them total ownership of decision making so that decisions can be made by a small group of people who work with each other every day. That way no meetings (and certainly no cross-team meeting) need to happen for most decisions to be made.
  • wtetzner 7y ago
    > The joke is that a team should be small enough that you only need to order two pizzas to feed them all. That's a tricky way to measure, given that I can eat a large pizza myself in a single sitting ;)
  • herval 7y ago
    Amazon is very well known for having A LOT of middle managers too, so I'm not sure it's a good example?
    • dodobirdlord 7y ago
      Seems sorta reasonable that if you need a manager for every 6-8 engineers, you would end up with a lot of managers.
      • herval 6y ago
        OP’s post was “ Aggressively small teams, with no hands-off middle-management layer”. 6-8 swe teams + hands off people manager reporting to middle manager, who reports to director, is how Amazon organizes teams, therefore it isn’t an example of what their suggestion was...