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A review by dunguyen
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Manuel Pais, Matthew Skelton
3.0
Team Topologies is about the title, how teams are interrelated and managed. The core of the book is actually pretty simple and outlines a theory and framework. It consists of four types of teams, stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated-subsystems and three types of team interaction models, collaboration, x-as-a-service, and facilitating. With Conway's Law as a guide, that the organizational structure shapes the product that is being built, Skelton and Pais explain how limiting organizational design to four types of teams and three types of team interaction can improve the business to deliver things faster.
I find the core ideas really interesting and have anecdotal experience that it may also really fit with real-world examples so I can recommend the book. At the same time it's not an easy read, mostly because of the overcomplicated explanations and examples that don't add to the comprehension. That along with the lack of actual advice for implementing these distracts a bit. The theory seems sound and I can take this with me, I just wish there was more tangible examples and some guidance to properly implement this.
I find the core ideas really interesting and have anecdotal experience that it may also really fit with real-world examples so I can recommend the book. At the same time it's not an easy read, mostly because of the overcomplicated explanations and examples that don't add to the comprehension. That along with the lack of actual advice for implementing these distracts a bit. The theory seems sound and I can take this with me, I just wish there was more tangible examples and some guidance to properly implement this.