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Kipters on July 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

In Italy we have what we call "family pizzas" which are supposed to be pizzas that are large enough to feed a family. In practice it's double the mass of a normal pizza, so a two-pizzas team would be 4 people (or 2 particularly hungry devs).

jks on July 29, 2020 | [–]

In Finland we have family pizzas too, and then there is the extended family pizza, which allows a whole Nokia department to be a two-pizza team: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

darkerside on July 29, 2020 | [–]

Well, clearly Italians thrive with smaller software teams

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