I (João Rosa) recently created an online cohort-based course, Effectively Manage Team Cognitive Load. Since the release of Team Topologies book, I have adopted its language and principles in my consultancy practice, supporting organizations in their digital transformation journey. I’ve noticed in the field that more people are aware of the effects of unmanaged Team Cognitive Load in their teams and organizations, using the concept presented in the Team Topologies book to drive changes in their organizations.

With the help of the wider community the Team Topologies team shapes library is now available in many common diagramming tools including Miro, Lucid Chart, Figma, Diagrams.net, Google Draw, Google Slides and PowerPoint.

We spoke to Darren Murph - Head of Remote at GitLab - about the opportunities and challenges presented by remote working for organizations building software-based systems and services. We were keen to get his insights into team-centric approaches to remote work.

Matthew Skelton und Manuel Pais haben mit ihrem Buch “Team Topologies” eine ausgezeichnete Beschreibung der Herausforderungen moderner Enterprise IT vorgelegt und bieten ein Modell an, das in vielen Fällen als Vorlage für eine effiziente Organisation herangezogen werden kann.

Robert Ruzitschka erklaert.

During the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, the authors of the “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow” book - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais were interviewed by SolutionIQ’s Stas Zvinyatskovsky for the Agile Amped Podcast.

We spoke to Mark Phillips - author of Reinventing Communications - to discover insights into modern organizational dynamics from the viewpoint of project management and program management.

We spoke to Henny Portman to discover insights into modern organizational dynamics from the viewpoint of project management, programme management, and portfolio management.

Emily Webber is the author of the book Building Successful Communities of Practice and recently did extensive research (with anthropologist Professor Robin Dunbar) into the size and engagement dynamics of various communities of practice with a particular focus on how the group dynamics change as the group size crosses certain thresholds. The research was published in the academic publication PLOS ONE.

We spoke to Emily about her research and what the implications are for designing and evolving organizations.