Wednesday 20th May: We'll be looking at Conway's Law with Manuel Pais, Co-Author of 'Team Topologies: Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow'.
In this informative and enlightening session, we'll be exploring how you can use exploit Conway's law and use it to your advantage. We'll also be looking at how communication structures, cognitive load, and alignment all play a crucial role in accelerating delivery and enabling delivery teams.
3. Who am I ?
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Independent IT organizational consultant and trainer
Ex-dev, ex-build manager, ex-tester, ex-QA lead
LinkedIn instructor on Continuous Delivery
Co-author of the book Team Topologies
4. Team Topologies
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Organizing business and
technology teams for fast flow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
IT Revolution Press
Order via stores worldwide: teamtopologies.com/book
6. “Any organization that designs a
system (defined broadly) will
produce a design whose structure is
a copy of the organization's
communication structure.”
– Mel Conway, 1968
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14. “Software that
fits in your head”
- Daniel Terhorst-North
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https://speakerdeck.com/tastapod/microservices-software-that-fits-in-your-head?slide=62
50. Team API
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● Code & artifacts owned by the team
● Versioning & testing approach
● Wiki and documentation
● Ways of working
● Roadmap & priorities
● Communication preferences (when/how)
51. “For effective team-first ownership
of software, teams need to
continuously define, advertise, test,
and evolve their Team API”
Team Topologies, p.48
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65. Are there major mismatches between
the team interactions and the required
software / system architecture?
What could be easily adjusted?
Large Conway mismatches
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67. Team Topologies
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Organizing business and
technology teams for fast flow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
IT Revolution Press
Order via stores worldwide: teamtopologies.com/book