# A return to two-pizza culture

DevFeed: [A return to two-pizza culture](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-return-to-two-pizza-culture-12433.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/06/return-to-two-pizza-culture.html>)

Author: werner@allthingsdistributed.com (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Published: 2026-06-30T14:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [All Things Distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/all-things-distributed.md>)

Topics: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [posts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/posts.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing.md>)

## AI overview

The article revisits Amazon's two-pizza team model, emphasizing small autonomous teams, end-to-end ownership, rapid reversible decisions, experimentation, and customer-focused product development through the Working Backwards process. It also explains how organizational growth, service dependencies, and approval cycles can reduce delivery speed.

## Source excerpt

What made the Quick desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I've seen at Amazon: a small group of people who trusted each other, owned the problem end-to-end, and acted on their conviction.