Proposed Term
Team Topologies
Context
An organisational-design model from Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais (Team Topologies, 2019) for structuring teams to optimise fast flow and manage cognitive load. It defines four fundamental team types — Stream-aligned, Enabling, Complicated-Subsystem, Platform — and three interaction modes — Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating. Operationalises Conway's Law (and the "inverse Conway maneuver") as a deliberate design tool.
Fits software-architecture; relatives in the catalog: conways-law, site-reliability-engineering, clean-architecture, domain-driven-design.
Source: Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies (2019) · https://teamtopologies.com/
LLM Activation Test Result
Model: Claude (Opus 4.8)
Prompt: "What concepts do you associate with 'Team Topologies'?"
Response: Four team types (Stream-aligned, Platform, Enabling, Complicated-Subsystem) and three interaction modes (Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating); cognitive load, fast flow, Conway's Law / inverse Conway maneuver, platform-as-a-product; attributed to Skelton & Pais (2019). Rich, consistent, strongly attributable activation.
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Proposed Term
Team Topologies
Context
An organisational-design model from Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais (Team Topologies, 2019) for structuring teams to optimise fast flow and manage cognitive load. It defines four fundamental team types — Stream-aligned, Enabling, Complicated-Subsystem, Platform — and three interaction modes — Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating. Operationalises Conway's Law (and the "inverse Conway maneuver") as a deliberate design tool.
Fits software-architecture; relatives in the catalog:
conways-law,site-reliability-engineering,clean-architecture,domain-driven-design.Source: Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies (2019) · https://teamtopologies.com/
LLM Activation Test Result
Model: Claude (Opus 4.8)
Prompt: "What concepts do you associate with 'Team Topologies'?"
Response: Four team types (Stream-aligned, Platform, Enabling, Complicated-Subsystem) and three interaction modes (Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating); cognitive load, fast flow, Conway's Law / inverse Conway maneuver, platform-as-a-product; attributed to Skelton & Pais (2019). Rich, consistent, strongly attributable activation.
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