Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

Author:Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais [Skelton, Matthew & Pais, Manuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, leadership, Management, Workplace Culture
ISBN: 9781942788829
Publisher: IT Revolution
Published: 2019-09-17T18:34:44.484000+00:00

Figure 5.3: Traditional Infrastructure Team Organization

Many traditional infrastructure teams (on the right) blocked flow by being responsible for all changes to production infrastructure, including application changes, frequently gated by ITIL change processes. Work from Dev teams (on the left) was handed over to infrastructure or Ops teams for deployment, preventing flow.

Converting an infrastructure team into a platform team enables rapid, safe flow of change both within the platform and—crucially—within stream-aligned teams.

The change from infrastructure team to platform team is not simple or straightforward, because a platform is managed as a product using proven software development techniques that may be quite unfamiliar to infrastructure people. But as the examples elsewhere in this chapter show, it’s an approach that works well.

Component Teams to Platform or Other Team Types

Existing teams based on a technology component should either be dissolved, with the work going into stream-aligned teams or converted into another team type: as part of the platform (if the component is a lower-level “platform” component), to an enabling team (if the component is easy enough for stream-aligned teams to work with), or to a complicated-subsystem team (if the subsystem really is needed and really is too complicated for stream-aligned teams to work with). In any case, the team should adopt the corresponding team behaviors and interaction modes.

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