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Partner Types

Team Topologies Partner Types

Team Topologies Valued Practitioner - TTVP

 
 
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A Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) is an independent expert practitioner (an individual person) in the software, IT, organization design, or related space who brings together expertise in their field (such as DDD, security, HR experience, etc.) and a strong awareness of Team Topologies (TT). We trust these people to deliver Guided Workshops, sense-check sessions, and similar sessions and also to advocate accurately and effectively for TT approaches.

 

Benefits for Practitioners

  • Identify closely with the Team Topologies brand and value proposition, providing an opportunity to raise fees and perceived value with clients

  • Option to deliver Team Topologies guided workshops and sense-check sessions for Trusted Partners alongside or in place of the TT authors

  • Access to the Team Topologies private StackOverflow portal for partner FAQs

  • Complimentary access to the TT Insights content subscription (currently worth €950 per year) - expected to be available from 2023/2024

  • Automatic invitation to provide a “Team Topologies Aligned” training course via the TT Academy

    • The TT Aligned course contains 20-25% material directly discussing TT, with the other material on a related topic

  • Option to be listed on the Team Topologies website as a TTVP

  • Option to use the designations “Team Topologies Valued Practitioner” and “TTVP” on marketing materials

  • Option to use the official TTVP logo on marketing materials

Requirements for Practitioners

Aspiring TTVPs are encouraged initially to join the Team Topologies Advocate (TTA) program. People from the TTA community are invited to apply to join  the ranks of TTVPs as their expertise becomes apparent.  

TTVPs demonstrate ongoing advocacy in TT through blogs, articles, training, talks, etc., demonstrate and share practical TT implementation experience (such as client case studies), and may have TT-related training courses that are promoted by TT via the Team Topologies Academy

TTVPs also become part of the core team at TT.

Current TTVPs

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Erica Engelen - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
sociotechnical, self-management, strategy, innovation
Erica Engelen - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
sociotechnical, self-management, strategy, innovation

Erica is a Business Agility Coach, driven by a deep passion for both people and technology. She is an early adopter of Team Topologies and experienced how easy it was to establish a common language with organizations based on the concepts in the book. She has vast experience in supporting organizations in increasing their agility, resilience, and innovative power by using Team Topologies alongside other practices covering the sociotechnical system.

Working in technology for over 20 years – and especially her experience in Open Source organizations – shaped her holistic approach to business agility. True agility necessitates simultaneous improvements on technology, structure, culture, and the work itself if you aspire sustainable and impactful results

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TTVP, Core team
sociotechnical, self-management, strategy, innovation
Kenny Baas-Schwegler - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering
Kenny Baas-Schwegler - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering

As a sociotechnical systems thinker, I work closely with CTOs, managers, architects, and software teams to revolutionise the way we design and develop software. The goal is to foster a collaborative software design approach and ensure that stakeholders and development teams co-create solutions that perfectly address both customer and business needs.

I have been leading and facilitating collaborative modelling sessions for over eight years. My journey began with Eventstorming, letting stakeholders participate to design software. As time has passed, the range of techniques in my repertoire has grown to encompass Example Mapping, Wardley Mapping, Business Model Canvas, Domain Storytelling, and the Team Topologies tools, among others.

A pivotal aspect of these sessions has always been the art of decision-making and inclusion. To enrich this process, I weave in my understanding of Deep Democracy with an anthropological lens, ensuring that the resulting decisions are sustainable, inclusive and reflect the collective wisdom, and are thoroughly supported by the group. I have distilled my experience into the book I co-authored, “Collaborative Software Design: How to Facilitate Domain Modelling Decisions,” which serves as a guide for those seeking to navigate the complexities of collaborative decision-making in software design.

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TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering
João Rosa - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering
João Rosa - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering

João is an early adopter of Team Topologies in his consultancy practices. When the book was published, he integrated it into Domain-Driven Design training. His customers could use the concepts to discuss software and team boundaries and how those interact with each other. He wrote about his journey at ABN AMRO, where he was part of the DevOps transformation program. Team Topologies were applied to several departments during his time to visualise and discuss the upcoming change. He is an executive advisor, using the Team Topologies to explain why any evolutionary journey is non-linear; he profoundly believes in the old saying: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.". As such, he works as enabler within the organizations to create a sustainable cadence of change. The tiny line between change and chaos agent! :)

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TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, product engineering
Eduardo da Silva - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, DevOps, Enabling teams, tech strategy
Eduardo da Silva - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, DevOps, Enabling teams, tech strategy

Eduardo has a long track record of leveraging and combining Team Topologies with many highly related ideas, such as improving organizations approach to sociotechnical systems evolution, architecture & leadership modernization, and developing Effective Enabling teams. He consults, writes, and speaks on “scaling sustainable fast flow of change” in software tech-enabled organizations. Eduardo brings a wide range of experience: from hands-on engineer and architect to first-hand experience scaling tech-enabled organizations and technical leadership.

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TTVP, Core team
ddd, sociotechnical, architecture, DevOps, Enabling teams, tech strategy
Susanne Kaiser - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, Wardley Maps, sociotechnical
Susanne Kaiser - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
ddd, Wardley Maps, sociotechnical

Susanne is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to her work on combining Wardley Maps, Domain-driven Design, and Team Topologies, first with her series of talks and more recently as the author of the book Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies: Architecture for Flow (Addison-Wesley, 2021). Susanne brings a wealth of experience in software and IT.

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TTVP, Core team
ddd, Wardley Maps, sociotechnical
Rich Allen - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
workshops, infographics, implementation, consulting
Rich Allen - TTVP
TTVP, Core team
workshops, infographics, implementation, consulting

Rich was involved in one of the first implementations of Team Topologies at PureGym shortly after the book launch in 2019. Since then Rich has been working closely with Matthew and Manuel to further develop additional materials such as the Team Shape Templates, Infographics and Frequently Asked Questions. Rich has also helped to develop and deliver the Team Topologies Guided Workshop - Blockers to Fast Flow (P89) and the Team Topologies Guided Workshop - Define and evolve a Platform (P803).

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TTVP, Core team
workshops, infographics, implementation, consulting
Nick Tune - TTVP
TTVP
ddd, domain-driven design, architecture, sociotechnical
Nick Tune - TTVP
TTVP
ddd, domain-driven design, architecture, sociotechnical

Nick is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to his work exploring and linking Team Topologies and Domain-driven Design (DDD). Nick has devised and delivered the Domain-driven Design for Team Topologies (TT21) training, and linked DDD to TT in resources such as the Core Domain Charts.

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TTVP
ddd, domain-driven design, architecture, sociotechnical
Manuel Pais - TTVP and Author
TTVP
security, DevOps, architecture
Manuel Pais - TTVP and Author
TTVP
security, DevOps, architecture

Manuel is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to co-authoring the Team Topologies book and his work on applying Team Topologies to reliability, security, software architecture, and related areas, plus his work on expanding the use Team Topologies outside of IT.

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TTVP
security, DevOps, architecture
Matthew Skelton - TTVP and Author
TTVP
reliability, security, architecture, operating model
Matthew Skelton - TTVP and Author
TTVP
reliability, security, architecture, operating model

Matthew is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP) due to co-authoring the Team Topologies book and his work on applying Team Topologies to reliability, security, software architecture, and related areas, plus his work on expanding the use Team Topologies outside of IT.

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TTVP
reliability, security, architecture, operating model

TTVP Candidates (undergoing assessment)

 

How to apply for TTVP

 
 

Members of the TTA community may be invited to become TTVPs. When invited to join the TTVP Partner Program aspiring TTVPs will need to have completed the following:

  • A published case study or article describing the use of TT within a named organization

  • A public talk and set of slides that include a details on TT

  • Answering a couple of FAQs (not published yet) - if these get published on teamtopologies.com the name of the TTVP would be alongside those FAQs

  • A new online resource (a set of worksheets, a Miro board, a GitHub repository, etc.) that explores and expands the use of TT

  • A draft article, case study, talk, or set of slides that provides significant detail on the use of TT in the real world

  • Something else similar to the items above

The authors (Matthew and Manuel) will review the material and arrange an interview with you by video call with you to talk through your experience.

If we think you're ready for TTVP, we will ask you to provide a 1-page doc (700 words) that describes your experience with TT. This will be used as the basis for the partner page details for your profile. There are no fees for TTVP.

 
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