Team Topologies: Organizing Teams for Flow of Value

Co-authors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais just released their new book “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow”. Skelton and Pais define four types of teams and they help achieve flow of change and reduce cognitive load for the team members.   Stream-aligned: More traditionally considered “product teams”  Enabling: Experts in a specific area  Complicated-subsystem: Deep skills such as Ph.D. level expertise or years of experience in a niche technology  Platform: Aiming to build the “thinnest viable platform” using Agile software practices  “We’re not just talking about shapes of the teams and composition, and the structure of the organization, we’re talking about the social dynamics.”  Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.  The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped