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but it has worked best for our company with these rules Sharing is good, but as others have pointed out, folks publishing such things could use a bit more inte
by goosejuice 2y ago
but it has worked best for our company with these rules
Sharing is good, but as others have pointed out, folks publishing such things could use a bit more intellectual humility. At this point perhaps authors just expect others read it as opinionated anecdotes.
Typical thought leader dogma aside, using pizza as a metaphor for team size has always been silly to meaningless.
- mathgeek 2y ago> Typical thought leader dogma aside, using pizza as a metaphor for team size has always been silly to meaningless. An easy way to see it fall apart is to imagine a team that each eats 3-4 slices of pizza, or a team that only eats one slice each.
- verve_rat 2y agoYup, in NZ a two pizza team would average out to about three people I think. Are US pizzas giant?
- skywhopper 2y agoWe have lots of sizes of pizza. Though I think the type they mean are the sort ordered from chain places for large groups, so usually 14-16 inches (35-40cm) diameter cut into 8-12 slices.
- OJFord 2y agoI think it's meant to be an 'order some pizzas, everyone grabs a slice' sort of situation, not 'everyone is hungry and has a proper meal'.
- mathgeek 2y agoIf this were true, a two-pizza team would be 12-24 people (assuming a pizza gets sliced somewhere from 6-12 slices).
- OJFord 2y agoWell alright everyone grabs a couple of slices, I'd say typical is 8 slices per pizza right, so that works out to 8 people, which yes is what it means doesn't it? (Not literally 8 but in that 6-10ish region?) My point was if you interpret it to mean a full meal for hungry people a two pizza team is like 2 maybe 4 people, because 'a pizza' is an order, unless these are enormous fast food 'party size' type pizzas.
- seadan83 2y ago2 slices is considered to be a meal. Calorie wise, it likely is. Typical large pizza has 8 slices. The vagueness is intentional. From the Amazon concept, it is intended to replace a meal and not be a random snack. (Former amazon employee here)
- goosejuice 2y agoYeah there's still way to many variables. Regional/cultural differences, appetite and body size, pizza styles, etc. For small teams that makes for a meaningful difference between the min and max. For large teams not so much. My wife and I have no issues finishing a 16in tavern style pizza. So that's a 4 person team. We're not even large people or big eaters. We just like pizza.
- seadan83 2y agoI hear you. I love that you can share a favorite food like that with your partner :) When I worked for amzn.. I was eating approx 3500 calories a day - long bike commute. Pizza was always disappointing as rarely enough (and even then, eating my fill would be too much. I had to go out and still buy another lunch anyways* - and almost always not enough veg pizzas!). We perhaps could get into the variety of factors, yeah, eg: nutrition density to as a function of toppings. Though.. if you look at serving size and how many people a large is meant to feed, it is pretty simply just 3 to 4. * worse yet, because lunch was delivered, there was an expectation to work an extra hour that day (ie: working lunch meeting, and certainly do not go home early). Foing out to get enough real food and suddenly I was the bad guy for being the one team member not in office. Actually buying lunch was easier, I would just buy two at once.. Thinking back to that time, holy shit the work expectations were something else..
- Tempest1981 2y agoSomewhere there is a company creating a committee to clarify this.