Optimizing Team Structures for Efficient Business and Technology Operations

launchy: Un livre plein d'exemples et d'analyses très pertinentes qui donne des conseils pour diagnostiquer et faire évoluer une organisation rapidement et durablement

France on Dec 08, 2023

Kunal Gupta: This book is explaining things in an actionable way. My orgs CTO is applying the concepts taught in this book in the company at the moment. It was great to see work by other leaders referenced at the relevant points throughout the book and excerpts of those reproduced as well, which was a great refresher for me for those materials.

United Kingdom on Dec 06, 2023

Nilendu MisraNilendu Misra: You ship your org chart. Therefore, to fix shipping, fix your org first. This is often called the "Inverse Conway maneuver". Or, more verbosely, something like - "developing software is a socio-technical complex problem. We often naively focus on the technical part and only reactively look into the org part much later in the process. This should be turned around. Start with building the right org. In fact, the right org should be the very FIRST deliverable of a system architecture." All good, except there is no existing framework, empirical literature or large-scale study of "technical org design". That results in biased, reactive and unnecessarily nested, if not random, engineering orgs. To try to produce what we ought to, we lean into what we had in the past. That primarily results in huge communication overhead.

This book methodically shows how to think and act on org design. It lays out four primary org types - value stream- (say, feature teams), enabling-, 'Complicated Subsystem- (say, databases or network), and Platform teams. It also shares three interaction modes these teams could work with each other - Collaboration, X-as-a-service and Facilitating. The 4x3...

United States on Oct 31, 2023

Turco, K: Read many books on teaming, this one actually gives you a framework for how to form a system of teams to build a software system. Easy read, excellent content and illustrations.

United States on Sep 12, 2023

Terry Adams: This is a great book for organizations that are going through growth, scaling or struggling with bottlenecks.
Having a common vocabulary as you work through the changes is important to be the most productive and reduce friction in teams.
This is one of the key books for understanding how to approach change and growth.

United States on May 10, 2023

Jan Dziekan: In our ever-accelerating world, one of the fundamental qualities of a good system is its ability to change and adapt. This requirement applies both to companies wishing to keep pace with competitors as well as to the software supporting their business goals. Within the context of software systems, one of the best practices is to compose them of independent, goal-oriented components. If the architecture achieves the so-called “low coupling and high cohesion”, there is a good chance that new business requirements would result in quick changes in a single part of the system, as opposed to the lengthy, costly and error-prone releases which plague the mismanaged software. “Team Topologies” demonstrates that the pressure for adaptability should not only restructure the computer programs, but also - and maybe even more importantly - the IT departments creating them. In my opinion it is an excellent work showing that IT should be thought of holistically, not as separate parts of technical code and people’s organization.

The basic premise of the book - that the structure of software reflects the organization building it - is not new. Known as the “Conway’s law”, the...

United States on Jan 27, 2023

Rafael Montilha: Livro referência no setor de tecnologia para pensar a organização de equipes com base em estratégias de plataforma. Ajuda a pensarmos porque continuamos desenvolvendo sistemas baseado em silos e como podemos quebrar esse paradigma atraés de uma abordagem inovadora.

Brazil on Nov 30, 2022

Miguel Mendez: I liked how the information was simple to digest and the many examples helped to understand how to put the concepts into practice. I like the whole idea of using communication patterns first instead of architecture. I'll be taking that away for sure

Canada on Nov 13, 2022

Carlo: This book marks somehow a cornerstone in the subject of team management for it projects.
Really good theory. New concepts and ideas are expressed clearly. Lot of examples, notes and explanations.
Really suggested for it managers and enterprise architects.

Italy on May 03, 2022

Aimee D. Bechtle: Finally a resource that looks past the agile teams and supporting business facing only products by introducing Enabling and Platform teams. I read this book twice. The first time I read it I was working at another company and many of the teams were stream-aligned and there were platform teams, so the book was more validation rather than giving me new knowledge. I am now reading it through the lens of my new company and how they are organized and I am riveted. The business unit I am in is Conway’s law amplified and the book is giving me the words to be able to communicate the problems and why. I’m looking at the communications and dependency overhead and inside I am screaming “look at the software architecture!” And “break up the DB and Ops silo!” I myself am forming a platform X-as-a-Service team for Cloud-Native apps that includes CICD, containers, microservices architecture, data analytics services, observability services and using the book to help me design the teams. It is a well written and actionable book.

United States on Sep 06, 2020