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by usrlocaletc 2479 days ago
How is this different from Virgins' "keep organizations small and break them up with they get too big" philosophy?
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"small" and "too big" are vague and meaningless
Judging from the confusion here, one could argue that the "two-pizza team" definition is also vague and meaningless - at least to an international audience.
The two pizzas solution can be easily explained by delivering an American style pizza and seeing if the team can eat it.
I can eat a family sized Papa Murphy's pizza by myself in one sitting so I don't know how relevant a metric that is.
It's not how much pizza you can eat.

Think how many slice a person typically eats at a team lunch in a professional setting. It's usually a few slices. A large pizza has around 8 slices, so with two pizzas, that covers 6-10 people. And that's what the article says.

Keep in mind you’re on a team. As a good team player would you be satisfied with 2 slices even if you could eat 6?
To be fair, we shouldn't have assumed that imperial pizzas are the same size as metric ones.