Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Organizational Design Team Topologies

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais codified patterns for organizing teams around fast flow of change. The book defines four fundamental team types and three interaction modes, giving organizations a shared vocabulary for designing team structures that minimize cognitive load and reduce coordination overhead. The Inverse Conway Maneuver applies Conway’s Law in reverse, reshaping teams to drive the desired architecture.

Resources

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow” (IT Revolution Press, 2019)
Team Topologies — the concept group page
Team API — a practice from the book