Name: Team Topologies
ISBN: 9781942788829

Matthew Skelton

Manuel Pais

In Team Topologies DevOps 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 will help readers discover: • Team patterns used by successful organizations. • Common team patterns to avoid with modern software systems. • When and why to use different team patterns • How to evolve teams effectively. • How to split software and align to teams.

Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Team Topologies

In Team Topologies IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions for IT through four fundamental team topologies and three interaction modes.

Colin Das

While this is targeted for software-based companies, this is insightful for almost anyone who works in an organization and has observed inefficiencies. 

One particular line I like is in valuing the feedback from the front-line or lower-level workers (as an engineer in a large organization, I feel both low and in the middle): 

Organizations that value information feedback from live (production) systems can not only improve their software more rapidly but also develop a heightened responsiveness to customers and users. This superior “sensing” ability comes from treating frontline staff and teams as highly valuable sources of signals about the market and environment in which the organization is operating.

mercy

There are some good ideas here. The big ideas are a good reference to compare against and consciously base differences off of.

But the writing is just too verbose.

Team Topologies Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow