Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology

Overview
Team Topologies introduces a model for organizing software teams based on four fundamental team types and three interaction modes, helping organisations align structure with delivery flow.

Key Takeaways

• Identify four core team topologies: stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, and platform teams.
• Apply three interaction modes: collaboration, X-as-a-service, and facilitating.
• Use team boundaries and cognitive load principles to design effective team structures.
• Emphasize evolutionary team design through continuous improvement.

Who Would Benefit

• Engineering managers seeking to optimise team structures.
• Technical leaders responsible for organisational design.
• Architects and DevOps practitioners focusing on flow efficiency.
• Software delivery coaches and consultants.

Frameworks and Methodologies

• Team Topologies framework
• Domain-Driven Design concepts
• Flow-based delivery principles
• Cognitive load theory applied to team design