FUNdaments
(Fundamental Team Topologies)
(Fundamental Team Topologies)
Model for organizational design that provides key technology-agnostic mechanisms for modern software-intensive enterprises to sense when a change in strategy is required
What Are Team Topologies?
Team(s) working closely together with another team
What Is the Collaboration Mode?
Law which states "the system design will copy the communication structures of the organization which designs it"
What Is Conway's Law?
A single, large application with many dependencies and responsibilities that possibly exposes many services
What is an Application Monolith?
Team composed around specialists in a given technical (or product) domain. They help bridge the capability gap.
What Is an Enabling Team?
Team(s) helping (or being helped by) another team to clear impediments
What Is the Facilitation Mode?
Law which states "adding new people to a team doesn't immediately increase the capacity of a team"
What Is Brooks Law?
How work actually gets done based on inter-personal and inter-team reputation
What is a Value Creation Structure?
Enables stream-aligned teams to deliver work with substantial autonomy
What Is a Platform Team?
Consuming or providing something with minimal collaboration
What Is X-As-A-Service Mode?
States that fifteen is the limit of people one person can trust, of those, only around five can be known and trusted closely
What Is Dunbar's Number?
A careful balance between keeping the platform small and ensuring that the platform is helping to accelerate and simply software delivery for teams building on the platform
What is the Thinnest Viable Platform?
Name two of the platforms being considered at TXM at this time
What Are Content Management, EIS, IVR, Infrastructure, TMO, and Security?
This is the interaction mode most commonly associated with Enablement teams
What Is Facilitation Mode?
Organizations should evolve their team and organizational structure to achieve the desired architecture
What Is Inverse Conway Maneuver?
A natural "seam" in the software system that allows it to be easily split into two or more parts
What is a Fracture Plan?
While the Informal Structure relies on the "realm of influence" between individuals, this Org-Chart based structure is best used to facilitate compliance
What Is the Formal Structure?
This is the interaction mode most commonly associated with platform teams
What Is X-As-A-Service Mode?
Organizations with better information flow function more effectively
What Is Westrum's Theory of Ogranizational Culture?
Brian Hynes
Who is the host of today's Jeopardy Game?