Creditas: Managing Team Cognitive Load with Team Topologies for Fast Flow of Value

In just three years, Yassir scaled from 50 engineers to 400, serving 8 million customers across 45 cities. This rapid growth came with a price: tangled team structures, misaligned priorities, and mounting delivery bottlenecks. In this case study we show how Team Topologies helped turn chaos into clarity and faster flow.

Read more →

Yassir: Transforming a Super App with Team Topologies

In just three years, Yassir scaled from 50 engineers to 400, serving 8 million customers across 45 cities. This rapid growth came with a price: tangled team structures, misaligned priorities, and mounting delivery bottlenecks. In this case study we show how Team Topologies helped turn chaos into clarity and faster flow.

Read more →

Evolving an empowered, high-performing delivery ecosystem using Team Topologies at REA Group

This case highlights how applying Team Topologies principles can evolve an organization into a high-performing, empowered ecosystem capable of delivering value faster, with greater sustainability and team well-being. REA Group’s Financial Services division undertook a major transformation to address slow delivery, high cognitive load, and inefficiencies caused by large, monolithic teams. By adopting Team Topologies, the organization restructured into small, autonomous, stream-aligned teams and introduced a strong focus on flow efficiency, intentional ways of working, and cognitive load management.

Read more →

From Organic Growth to Intentional Flow: How Alfa Financial Software Increased Alignment and Shortened Time-to-Value Using Team Topologies

In this case study, Alfa Financial Software, a leading provider of asset finance SaaS, addressed the scaling challenges of its organically grown engineering structure by implementing the Alfa Development Model (ADM). By adopting principles from Team Topologies, the company restructured its teams to reduce cognitive load and optimise workflow. This strategic shift allowed Alfa to maintain its collaborative culture while ensuring sustainable, long-term software delivery for its global clients, including major institutions like Mercedes-Benz and Santander.

Read more →

A data-driven approach to fast flow using Team Topologies principles at EBSCO

EBSCO Information Services, a leading provider of research databases, leveraged Team Topologies with Conflux's support, Team Topologies Solution Partner, to optimize its organizational dynamics for software delivery.

Read more →

Reteaming for Fast Flow: A Case Study from Pirate Ship Software GmbH

This case study, Reteaming for Fast Flow, outlines how Pirate Ship Software GmbH, a cloud-based shipping software company, successfully reorganized its Hamburg development team to support significant growth. Faced with scaling limits, unclear domain ownership, and excessive cognitive load across three overloaded feature teams, the company sought a new structure that could integrate 10 additional developers effectively

Read more →

Transforming Blue Lagoon: A Journey Towards Sustainable Growth and Empowerment

This case study is particularly relevant for change makers in organizations who aspire to co-create more adaptive, human-centered organizations. Blue Lagoon’s transformation demonstrates how trust, collaboration, and systemic thinking can unlock agility and sustainable growth, without compromising culture.

Read more →

Reorganizing for Success: Capra Consulting’s Journey Applying Team Topologies Beyond IT Roles

Capra Consulting, a Norwegian IT consultancy, underwent a reorganization to address challenges in communication and decision-making brought about by growth. At 50 employees and a hierarchical organizational model, we wanted to mitigate the risks of reduced employee participation in our operation and reduced autonomy that might come with growth. We sought inspiration from the Team Topologies book to create a networked organizational structure that emphasized employee engagement, autonomy, and flexibility. By dissolving the Top Management Group and introducing specialized teams, we fostered distributed decision-making and collaborative problem-solving.

Read more →

Trade Me’s Journey Towards a Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP)

The following case study explains what led Trade Me to introduce the concept of the Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) from the book Team Topologies. We will explore what sparked our need to change the way we previously had been working, what we did, and the lessons we learned.

Read more →

A data-driven approach to fast flow using Team Topologies principles at EBSCO

What you will learn in this case study

more Case studies

A data-driven approach to fast flow using Team Topologies principles at EBSCO

What you will learn in this case study

more Case studies

Scaling Social Impact and Autonomy using Team Topologies Principles at NGO Kodea