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The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head. - Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear ten
by pdelgallego 6y ago
The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head.
- Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear tenets that act as the north start for decision making at team level, and two-way doors thinking.
- Establish how you measure success, and how does relate to the goals of the organisation.
- Achieve team independency is a key factor, and having strong mechanisms such as the "away teams" concept, "communication is terrible" mental model and reducing cognitive overload by relying on platform teams
- Nominating a single-threaded owner for programs and business outcomes.
- Articulate how the organisation works across teams using mechanisms such as bar raisers, OP1/OP2, PR/FAQs, CoEs, WBRs, experiment-driven teams, ...
- closeparen 6y ago>"communication is terrible" My company has brought in a lot of Amazon people and ideas, but unfortunately we go this one backwards. "Communication is great." Managers are explicitly encouraged to structure projects to maximize cross-team and cross-org meeting hours.
- pdelgallego 6y agoIt is quite common to get communication wrong, even inside Amazon. It leads to design by committee, slow decision making, and increase team dependencies. I would love to hear your experience adopting Amazon mechanisms. Disclaimer: I work at Amazon. I help customers to adopt some of those mechanisms.