the two-pizza team

ops culture

The rule that a team should be small enough to feed with two pizzas.

Attributed to Jeff Bezos, the idea is that communication overhead explodes as a team grows, so smaller teams move faster and own their work more clearly. It is a rule of thumb for autonomy and the organizational half of building loosely coupled systems.

Also known as: two-pizza rule, 2-pizza team

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