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Team Topologies

By Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

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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.

Foreword by Ruth Malan.

  • Publication Date September 17, 2019
  • Pages 240
  • Paperback Dimensions 6 x 9 inches, full color
  • Paperback ISBN 9781942788812
  • eBook ISBN 9781942788829
  • Kindle ISBN 9781942788836
  • Audiobook ISBN 9781942788850

Features

  • Organizational Design

    Enrich your understanding of organizational architecture and how it should serve the teams creating value.

  • Practical Guide

    Learn step-by-step how to create organizational topologies that help teams interact to make software architecture more sustainable.

  • High Utility

    With tips, notes, and 19 industry examples and case studies as well as 38 full-color figures, this book is actionable as soon as you're close the final page.

  • All Levels

    This book is a useful guide for all levels of practitioners.

About the Book

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.

Matthew Skelton
Manuel Pais
Matthew Skelton

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.

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Manuel Pais

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.

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"... a much-needed framework for evaluating and optimizing team organization for increased flow...Team Topologies combines a methodical approach with real-world case studies to unlock the full potential of your tech teams."

Greg Burrell

Senior Reliability Engineer at Netflix

"It’s well constructed and signposted, based in sound thinking, and challenges readers to assume, like them, that an organization is a socio-technical system or ecosystem."

Dr. Naomi Stanford

Organization Design Practitioner, Teacher, and Author

"... few have attempted to catalog and analyze the organizational design patterns of IT organizations going through Digital, DevOps, and SRE transformations. Skelton and Pais have not only accepted this bold challenge, but they’ve also hit the mark by creating an indispensable and unique resource."

Damon Edwards

Co-Founder of Rundeck

"At Condé Nast International, this resource was crucial in understanding our current DevOps state and in defining the vision for our aspirational DevOps operating model... The models themselves proved extremely useful artifacts in aligning both stakeholders and teams directly involved."

Crystal Hirschorn

VP of Engineering, Global Strategy & Operations at Condé Nast

"We need a structured and methodical approach to shaping teams for continuous delivery instead of copying a few Spotify rituals. This is the book."

Nick Tune

API Platform Lead, Navico

"DevOps is great, but how do real-world organizations actually structure themselves to do it? Team Topologies provides a practical set of templates for addressing the key DevOps question that other guides leave as an exercise for the student."

Jeff Sussna

Founder & CEO, Sussna Associates, and Author of Designing Delivery

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