[pdelgallego]

The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head.

- Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear tenets that act as the north start for decision making at team level, and two-way doors thinking.

- Establish how you measure success, and how does relate to the goals of the organisation.

- Achieve team independency is a key factor, and having strong mechanisms such as the "away teams" concept, "communication is terrible" mental model and reducing cognitive overload by relying on platform teams

- Nominating a single-threaded owner for programs and business outcomes.

- Articulate how the organisation works across teams using mechanisms such as bar raisers, OP1/OP2, PR/FAQs, CoEs, WBRs, experiment-driven teams, ...

[closeparen]

>"communication is terrible"

My company has brought in a lot of Amazon people and ideas, but unfortunately we go this one backwards. "Communication is great." Managers are explicitly encouraged to structure projects to maximize cross-team and cross-org meeting hours.

[pdelgallego]

It is quite common to get communication wrong, even inside Amazon. It leads to design by committee, slow decision making, and increase team dependencies.

I would love to hear your experience adopting Amazon mechanisms.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon. I help customers to adopt some of those mechanisms.