2 pizza rule

Belief that team size is limited to 5-7 people Jeff Bezos.

• If a team couldn’t be fed with two pizzas, it was too big.

If Bezos’s personality is decidedly noncorporate, so are some of his ideas about how to run a large organization. One of Bezos’s more memorable behind-the-scenes moments came during an off-site retreat, says Risher. “People were saying that groups needed to communicate more. Jeff got up and said, ‘No, communication is terrible!’ ” The pronouncement shocked his managers. But Bezos pursued his idea of a decentralized, disentangled company where small groups can innovate and test their visions independently of everyone else. He came up with the notion of the “two-pizza team”: If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. That limits a task force to five to seven people, depending on their appetites. https://www.fastcompany.com/50106/inside-mind-jeff-bezos-5 This is the only article I could find before 2007 (I’m not sure if the 08.01.04 date is 2004 or 2008, but at the end of the page it says A version of this article appeared in the August 2004 issue of Fast Company magazine. magazine.)

2018 Jeff Bezos’ ‘2 pizza rule’ can help you hold more productive meetings Initially it was about the number of team members, but by this time it was about the number of people attending the meetings.

orthographical variants - Two Pizzas Principle

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