SDRs are an easy, lightweight tool to help you analyze, negotiate, and formally record the decisions of a complex sociotechnical system. They are highly flexible and can be adapted to fit your team's specific people management or delivery concerns.

When combined with the concept of a Team API, SDRs become incredibly powerful. The SDR acts as the negotiated contract, while the Team API acts as the public, easily consumable broadcast of that contract. Together, they bring interactions out of the shadows, clarifying purpose, setting realistic boundaries, and fostering an environment built on genuine transparency and organizational trust.

Agile Rising, a long-standing Team Topologies Solution Partner, and Team Topologies today announce a new phase of their partnership focused on offering an accelerated approach to AI adoption and the necessary operating model transformation to support it.

Team Topologies today announced that professional services firm KPMG UK has become a Team Topologies Solution Partner (TTSP). This alliance marks a significant milestone in the adoption of modern organisational dynamics and makes KPMG UK the first of the "Big Four" consultancies to achieve accredited TTSP status.

"We're moving to a product operating model." If you've heard this announcement in your organization recently, you're not alone. The shift from project-based delivery to product thinking represents one of the most significant organizational transformations in modern business. But here's what many leaders don't realize: simply renaming project managers to product managers won't get you there.

We're excited to announce a strategic partnership between Team Topologies and TeamForm, the leading platform for team-first operating models. Building on a collaborative relationship established in 2021, this formal partnership bridges the gap between Team Topologies principles and the day-to-day execution required to scale them across global enterprises.

We're excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Kosli, the world's leading SDLC Governance platform. Together, we'll be helping regulated enterprises achieve faster, more efficient software delivery while maintaining the strict compliance and security requirements their industries demand.

As banks accelerate DevOps, manual governance lags behind. Drawing on DORA research and real-world banking experience, this ‘Expert View’ article shows why traditional approvals increase risk and slow delivery—and how automated, peer-review-driven governance aligns compliance with high-performing software delivery.

For organizations facing critical structural bottlenecks or striving for radical business agility, the solution requires fundamentally reshaping how teams are organized around value delivery, managing both the complexity and the cognitive load placed on people. The core question must shift from, "Are we doing Agile right?" to, "Are we organized in a way that supports flow?".

The second edition of Team Topologies is now available. Six years after the original publication sparked a fundamental shift in how organizations approach structure and purpose, this updated edition provides the evolved framework leaders need to navigate today's complex landscape.

Agile gave us better delivery practices, but many teams still struggle with invisible friction. The real bottleneck isn't your ceremonies-it's whether your org structure actually supports fast flow.
Rich Allen's final piece in the 'Why Agile Isn't Enough' series explores how outdated team boundaries and coordination overhead quietly slow delivery, and why treating structure as a design lever (not a fixed artifact) can unlock the flow your teams are capable of.

In this 2nd part of the newsletter series ‘Why Agile isn’t enough (and what’s really slowing you down), Rich Allen explores two less visible frictions, overloaded platform teams and overly collaborative operating models, that quietly slow delivery. Instead of more process, we may need better questions about how our teams are structured, how they interact, and whether we’ve designed the organisation for clarity, autonomy, and flow.

The second edition of the book Team Topologies provides vital success stories, analysis, commentary, and clarifications to help leaders plan and execute transformations in every industry sector and geography.