Designed for small teams

All of the Agile frameworks described in this chapter are designed for use by small teams. For Kanban, there is no prescribed team size, but if clear communication and coordination among team members is needed, then keeping the team size small is desirable.

An Agile team's ideal size is often referred to as a two-pizza team, that is, the team is just big enough that two pizzas would be enough to feed it. This obviously depends on the size of the pizza!

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