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Navigating the autonomy spectrum: tailoring Product Ownership with Team Topologies

This article explores how Team Topologies provides practical lens for understanding the varying autonomy needs across different team types. Rather than seeking "maximum autonomy for all," organizations should match each team's decision-making authority to its purpose, tailoring Product Ownership models and financial accountability accordingly for optimal flow of value.

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The Real Value of Team Topologies

What is Team Topologies? Is it a framework? Is it a set of principles? How can you start using it without having a big-bang, top-down approach? And is that ever the right approach?

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New online training on Team Topologies from the authors

We’re pleased to launch a new online interactive training series covering essential Team Topologies concepts and patterns with training led by the authors of Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais.

The training sessions have been designed for the new remote-first, post-pandemic world. The sessions are 4 hours long (with breaks), making them suitable for people in multiple different timezones to join. The sessions are:

Each session covers a different set of Team Topologies ideas and concepts with links between sessions to connect the concepts. Each session is fully independent and valuable by itself, but when taken together as a set of four, the sessions provide a complete coverage of the essential Team Topologies ideas.

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Deployment pipelines and service abstractions for Stream-aligned teams

Deployment pipelines can really help Stream-aligned teams to deliver software changes independently:

  1. Deployment pipelines can help to reinforce an independent flow of change for a Stream-aligned team. Don’t forget to enable rapid feedback via telemetry!

  2. Define the endpoints external to the team - these represent the “outside world” from team perspective. These external endpoints should be outside or at the domain boundary.

  3. There can be huge value in managing your deployment pipeline “as a Service or as a proper product, with product management approaches.

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