What Comes After Team Topologies?

Conway’s Law teaches us we can’t think about software and organizational structure separately. Team Topologies defines a set of team patterns that complement architectural strategies such as microservices and cloud platforms. Together, they enable flow and resilience. The question remains, though: once you’ve adopted Team Topologies patterns, how do your teams behave? Maximizing flow at scale depends on the ability to balance autonomy and alignment. This balancing act requires more than just breaking systems and organizations into small, self-contained units. Those units need a socio-technical architecture for how they relate to one another. This talk will describe the missing piece in the structure-and-behavior equation needed to achieve large-scale agility.