Team Topologies

by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais

Posted by Anton Katunin on 24 October 2021
Tags: books, 4 stars, audiobook

Finally a good book on team structure. I really enjoyed this book. It's very practical and provides a deep understanding of choices. Recent trends that more collaboration is better or all teams are the same are a big delusion. In fact sometimes less collaboration yields better results. But the question is which is which? The book doesn't give you a solution, but rather gives you tools and understanding to decide for yourself.

I listened to the audiobook, and while it was insightful, the book has a lot of diagrams, so I'll be reading it. I think this book is worth reading when you have at least 15 people across all teams.

While the book talks about tech teams, I'm curious how well these concepts could work on the organisational level across departments. πŸ€”

Update 13th Nov 2021: finished reading the book. Yeap, it's still very good. I definitely missed some parts in the audiobook as there are many images related to the discussion.