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Dr. Robin Gaster is the CEO of Incumetrics and a visiting scholar at George Washington University Institute for Public Policy.
In it, he reveals how Amazon s structure allows for the quick formation of small, agile teams.
The following is a book excerpt.
Amazon is famously organized into small two-pizza (8 -10 person) teams. This directly adds flexibility and agility. Small teams can move quickly.
Amazon s two-pizza teams are agile, developed flexible inter-team structures, offer clarity or purpose, and are fast to innovate. They are also highly autonomous: the Prime Now team was able to launch its pilot on the iPhone first even though Amazon is generally an Android company. When the workload for a team becomes too big, Amazon may decide to break it into multiple smaller teams to keep their agility.
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