team-topology-design

Design team structures using Team Topologies to reduce cognitive load and improve flow by mapping your organization's domains and current teams to stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated-subsystem team types. This framework aligns delivery with the flow of change and limits handoffs across product domains.

The four team types in Team Topologies are stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated-subsystem teams. Apply these team types across your current teams, domains, and pain points to establish cognitive-load-aware boundaries and align delivery with the flow of change.

To generate a Team Topology map, provide your organization's domains and current teams as input. The Skill outputs an initial topology map specifying requirements for team types, interaction modes, cognitive-load assessment, bounded contexts, and Team API.

Team Topologies uses three interaction modes: collaboration, X-as-a-Service, and facilitating. These modes guide organizational design by defining how stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated-subsystem teams interact to optimize flow and reduce handoffs.

Yes, Team Topologies applies cognitive-load-aware boundaries and alignment with Conway's law, including guidance on Reverse-Conway maneuvers where needed. It specifies requirements for bounded contexts and Team API to mitigate anti-patterns and track health metrics.

You need to provide your organization's current teams and domains to generate an initial Team Topology map. The Skill then outputs recommended team types, interaction modes, cognitive-load assessments, bounded contexts, and health metrics based on your specific pain points.