Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- 3h 48m
- Manuel Pais, Matthew Skelton
- IT Revolution Press
- 2019
Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity.
In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams.
Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.
About the Author
Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, and Founder & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organizations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value.
Manuel Pais
Manuel Pais is co-author of "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow". Recognized by TechBeacon as a DevOps thought leader, Manuel is an independent IT organizational consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating flow. Manuel is also a LinkedIn instructor on Continuous Delivery.
In this Book
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Foreword
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The Problem with Org Charts
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Conway’s Law and Why It Matters
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Team-First Thinking
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Static Team Topologies
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The Four Fundamental Team Topologies
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Choose Team-First Boundaries
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Team Interaction Modes
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Evolve Team Structures with Organizational Sensing
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Conclusion: The Next-Generation Digital Operating Model
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Glossary
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Recommended Reading
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References
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Notes
