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.

Docker is a technology company that has popularized containerization in the software industry. After reaching Series E status in 2017, we sold off our Docker Enterprise Edition product to Mirantis in November 2019, returning to our roots, and reinvesting in our end developer products, especially Docker Hub and Docker Desktop. With this refocus, we had to build new revenue streams as a Series A, 60 person company.

Our turnaround was swift, as we announced $50m in ARR on February 1, 2022, with a 4x increase in our previous fiscal year. We announced a Series C investment on March 31, 2022.

While this is building off our prior product adoption, success, and developer loyalty, we’ve also rebuilt our culture and organizational structure, including shaping our Product Development organization around concepts found in Team Topologies.

Founded in 2012, Improbable is a British technology company, dedicated to solving the challenges of building rich virtual worlds and pioneering the path to the metaverse. … In 2020 Improbable acquired Munich-based video games company Zeuz, a managed hosting service used by the makers of hit online games such as SCUM and Conan Exiles, to further the company’s mission to make online games development more efficient, effective and accessible for developers. …

Merging two companies that had significantly different approaches to software development was a daunting task. Using some of the key principles and practices defined in Team Topologies, Improbable were able to identify and execute on a plan to evolve the team structure in a way that would align with their future growth goals.