In this month’s Baseline issue, it talks about the best 500 companies at information management. I personally got a kick out of what Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com stated.

He stated that if you have a project team that can eat over two pizzas, you have too many people on that team. A good size team averages eight or fewer. Otherwise the project gets bogged down in so-called “administrivia”.

From personal experience, eight or fewer on a project is a decent amount to strive for. But, you need to be careful of those that count as more then one person. I have personally dealt with people that push a project to the so-called “administrivia” period faster then you can say “pretty decent“.