Team Topologies in Practice

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000

TL;DR - Team Topologies gives you four team types and three interaction modes. Almost everyone adopts the four boxes - rename the ops team “platform team”, call the senior engineers an “enabling team” - and quietly ignores the three interaction modes, which is where the entire value lives. The book’s real payload is a single idea: organise teams to minimise cognitive load, and make the way teams interact both explicit and temporary by design. Here is how that plays out for a real platform group, and the failure modes I see most.

Org-Design on F. Latini - IT Engineer

Team Topologies in Practice