KEY TAKEAWAYS
CHAPTER 7
- Choose specific team interaction modes to enhance software delivery.
- Choose between three team interaction modes—collaboration, X-as-a-Service, and facilitating—to help teams provide and evolve services to other teams.
- Collaboration can be a powerful driver for innovation but can also reduce flow.
- X-as-a-Service can help other teams deliver quickly but only if the boundary is suitable.
- Facilitating helps to avoid cross-team challenges and detects problems.
CHAPTER 8
- Use different team topologies simultaneously for strategic advantage.
- Change team topologies and team interactions to accelerate adoption of new approaches.
- Differentiate between explore, exploit, sustain, retire phases using team topologies.
- Expect multiple, simultaneous team topologies to meet different needs.
- Recognize triggers for organization change.
- Treat operations as high-fidelity sensory input for self-steering.
CONCLUSION
- Combine a team-first approach with Conway’s law, the four fundamental topologies, team interaction modes, topology evolution, and organizational sensing.
- Get started: begin with the team, identify streams, identify the thinnest viable platform, identify capability gaps, and practice team interactions.