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Companion book Remote Team Interactions Workbook now available!


Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?


Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and…

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2 authors picked Team Topologies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love pattern languages. And Team Topologies brings patterns for team types and their interactions. Most importantly, they address fundamental problems of the software industry: how teams organise for fast flow, and how teams cope with cognitive load. The book steams from the author's experience in the DevOps community, and it is widely used across the world. Last but not least, Team Topologies give us a language that support organisation evolution.

Fast-forward to today, and Team Topologies provides the shortest, clearest direction on how to arrange your business for technology engineering success. Skelton and Pais provided me a documented, sharable answer to “how do we do a digital transformation,” one of the common challenges organizations are facing today. 

Too many enterprises lead with technology (“we need a new mobile app”) or process (“let’s do agile”).  This ignores the centrality of people to success, which we saw so clearly in I Sing. Skelton and Pais start with the basics of how large-scale work is done today (mostly in teams), how teams…

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