We are happy to announce Luke McManus as the APAC Region Lead for Team Topologies, In this new role, Luke will be acting as a brand ambassador for the company. He will play the role of catalyst in the growing community of advocates, practitioners and transformation leaders. Luke will also act as the face of Team Topologies for solution, advanced and training partners, coordinating events and joint delivery of engagements.

We are happy to announce the appointment of Val Yonchev as the Head of Customer Success, a strategic move to strengthen our commitment to enhancing digital operations worldwide. With a focus on design for fast flow, Team Topologies aim to meet the increasing demand for streamlined team-of-teams approaches. Val’s extensive experience, particularly from his roles at Red Hat Open Innovation Labs and Digital.AI, positions him as a key driver in scaling Team Topologies’ efforts and nurturing strong partnerships with practitioners, solution partners, and training partners. Matthew Skelton, co-author and co-CEO at Team Topologies, expressed excitement about Yonchev’s appointment, emphasizing his suitability for leading customer and partner success initiatives.

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.