Software Team Topologies: How to Structure Engineering Organisations for Speed

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais’s Team Topologies framework has become the leading model for how modern engineering organisations structure their teams. It defines four team types — Stream-aligned, Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem — and three interaction modes that determine how teams collaborate.

Conway’s Law and Why It Matters

Conway’s Law states that organisations design systems that mirror their communication structures. This means your architecture will inevitably reflect your org structure. Team Topologies turns this from a problem into a design principle — deliberately designing your team structure to produce the architecture you want.