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.