We help product, technology and engineering leaders design high-impact team-of-teams organizations.

DESIGNING TEAM-OF-TEAMS ORGANIZATIONS FOR FAST FLOW

Team Topologies is the result of years of research into how successful leaders design team-of-teams organizations delivering business outcomes through technology.

What do leaders use Team Topologies For?

Team-of-teams design for product-driven and platform-driven organizations (aka project-to-product transformation, adopting product operating model).
Scale an existing product organization without compromising the speed of value and pace of innovation.
Scale the adoption of Cloud and accelerate value creation with complex cloud native architectures.
Streamline organizational design to accelerate flow of value.
Build Platform-as-a-Product and/or Platform Engineering strategy and corresponding team-of-teams design to execute it.
Accelerating adoption and value creation of new technologies (e.g. AI/ML), without disrupting the flow of value or introducing complexity in your architectures.

Our team of practitioners brings together deep knowledge of team-of-teams design through Team Topologies combined with other methods and ideas (Agile, DevOps, Value Stream Management, Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping).

Accelerate value in your organization

TEAM TOPOLOGIES Assessment

Assess different areas of your organization for fast flow of value and get guidance on where and how to start.

The assessment covers the 10 key dimensions of organizational agility. These act as prerequisites for the adoption of Team Topologies and other principles that enable fast flow of value. They show where your organization is in terms of being flow-oriented or hindered by organizational processes.

Our team of coaches and practitioners also offer a deeper dive with your team/s in an Expert Review & Assessment. It takes a few weeks and covers your architecture/s, SDLC processes and team-of-teams organization. Get in touch if you are interested in this engagement.

WHERE SHOULD YOU START IN YOUR ORGANIZATION?

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TEAM TOPOLOGIES

Team Topologies is the leading approach to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow of value, providing a practical, step-by‑step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction.

Led by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of the highly‑acclaimed book Team Topologies (IT Revolution, 2019), the Team Topologies ecosystem of partners, practitioners, and learning Academy is transforming the approach to the digital operating model for organizations around the world.

Books

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The book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais was published in September 2019 by IT Revolution Press. Buy the book >>>

AWARDS

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WHAT LEADERS YOU CAN TRUST SAY ABOUT US…

Dr. Naomi Stanford, Organizational design practitioner, teacher, and author

"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."
Philip Fisher-Ogden, Director of Engineering at Netflix

”You inspired many discussions and helped us to think about what model Netflix teams could be/are using.”
Dave Farley, author of "Continuous Delivery"

“Team Topologies is an excellent guide to structuring and keeping teams, processes and technologies aligned, for all kinds of organisations. It gives us a vocabulary and a model to direct our thinking in a way that allows for scaling up, and helps us to organise teams for effective software development.”
Azure Cloud Adoption Framework

“Consider establishing an enabling team that can … support applications and platforms … ”
Crystal Hirschorn, VP of Engineeering, Global Strategy & Operations at Conde Nast

“At Conde Nast International, Team Topologies 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 artifcats in aligning both stakeholders and teams directly involved.“
Sam Newman, author "Building Microservices" and "Monolith To Microservices"

”I highly recommend Team Topologies to anyone in a leadership role in software development.”
State of DevOps Report, Puppet

“Highly evolved organizations tend to follow the Team Topologies model”
Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist for Thoughtworks, co-author of the Agile Manifesto

”A crucial insight of Team Topologies is that the primary benefit of a platform is to reduce the cognitive load on stream-aligned teams.”
Charles Betz, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

"...innovative tools and concepts for structuring the next generation digital operating model. Recommended for CIOs, enterprise architects, and digital product strategists worldwide.”
AWS Well-architectured Guidance

“ [OA.STD.1] Organize teams into distinct topology types to optimize the value stream”
Greg Burrell, Senior Reliability Engineer at Netflix

“… 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.”
James Lewis, Software architect, Director at ThoughtWorks, author

”Team Topologies provides the ubiquitous language for us to talk about organizational design and team structures. It allows us to communicated the Domain-Driven Design sense of ubiquitous language.”
Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist for Thoughtworks, co-author of the Agile Manifesto

”Team Topologies is a tool that impels people to evolve their organization into a more effective way of operating…”
Ruth Malan, Architecture Consultant at Bredemeyer Consulting

"Team Topologies informs and enriches our understanding of organizational architecture…it serves as a pragmatic guide whether forming teams and enabling them to meet their challenges or helping existing teams become more effective at responsive value delivery."
Damon Edwards, Co-founder Rundeck

"… 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 hit the mark by creating an indispensable and unique resource."
Jeff Sussna, Founder and CEO, Sussna Associates, and author of "Designing Delivery"

"DevOps is great, but how do real-world organisation 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."
Chris Richardson, Architect, developer, founder, author of "Microservices Patterns"

"Team Topologies is a must for all leaders who want to build a high-performing engineering organization that enables their business to thrive in today's world"

Tools & Resources

Curated selection of the best tools to help you on your journey. We cover various tools and practices to help with adoption, modelling, readiness and cognitive load measurement.

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Academy Courses

The Team Topologies Academy provides online, on-demand, video-based training courses available 24h across all timezones. To learn fast more about key approaches from Team Topologies.

Key Concepts

Discover the key concepts. We highly recommend checking out at least one of the talks from the Resources menu for a better understanding of how it all comes together.

Unsure where to start?

Book time with Val, our Head of Success. His years of experience forming and leading high-impact engineering teams guarantees you a prompt and actionable answer to propel your journey.

WHO IS USING TEAM TOPOLOGIES

Many companies worldwide, spanning various industries, have leveraged the concepts of Team Topologies to drive innovation, streamline team operations, and achieve fast flow of value. This strategic approach has led to successful business evolution and a competitive advantage.

Our team continues to capture case studies of how leaders have adopted a Team Topologies approach to accelerate business outcomes in their team-of-teams organizations.

We regularly share those to inspire more leaders to build humane organizations for high performance.

Read the case studies