Team Topologies

By Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais present a practical model for organizing technology teams around four fundamental team types — stream-aligned, platform, enabling, and complicated-subsystem — and three interaction modes. Rather than copying org charts from other companies, they show how to evolve team structures that optimize for fast flow of change while reducing cognitive load.

Drawing on real-world case studies and principles from Conway's Law, the book gives engineering leaders and individual contributors a shared language for discussing team design. Whether you're scaling a startup or restructuring a large engineering org, Team Topologies provides a blueprint for building teams that can deliver software quickly and sustainably.