TTasaPatternLanguage.pdf

This is the slide deck for my talk about TT as a Pattern Language. It introduces the concept of a pattern language and describes the basics of Team Topologies as a pattern language that can be applied to problems of organizational design.

Transcript

1. Agile Tour Vienna 2023 Team Topologies - An Organizational Pattern Language
2. “Everything is very complicated” Fred Sinowatz, 1983 https://www. fl ickr.com/photos/sicutat/3451865211/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9374317
3. Fred Sinowatz, 1983 https://www. fl ickr.com/photos/sicutat/3451865211/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9374317 "I know, ladies and gentlemen, that everything is very complicated, just like this world which we live and act in, and the society in which we want to unfold ourselves. Let us therefore have the courage to point out this complexity more than before. Let’s admit that there can’t be perfect solutions for everything and everyone in a pluralistic democracy."
4. I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at it in the right way, did not become more complicated. Poul Anderson
5. Patterns
6. A pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem. Patterns can be used to describe a problem, describe the core aspects of a solution to a problem, and capture the reasoning behind a solution.
7. Pattern Language
8. Pattern languages are collections of related patterns that work together to solve a problem in a particular context.
10. Patterns
12. Organisational Design
13. Deliver frequently Collect Feedback Learn
15. 1. Fast Flow
16. 2. Good for us as human beings
17. 3. Coherence of SW Architecture and Org
18. Mel Conway
19. “Any organization that designs a system (de fi ned broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.” Melvin E. Conway (1967)
20. Cohesion Coupling
21. Reverse Conway Manoeuvre
22. Software Engineer who fi nds out that the structure of an IT organisation is an Engineering problem Picture by DALL-E
24. “A topology is the way in which constituent parts (of a system) are interrelated or arranged.” Oxford Dictionary
25. Team Topologies Book Title Page
26. Team First By DALL-E
28. Communication Stability Diversity Trust Motivation Innovation “Team First”
29. Team Pattern 1: The base
31. Cognitive Load “The total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory .” John Sweller, 1988
32. “Software Engineering is a discipline of learning and discovery. We build our learnings and solutions incrementally”
33. Intrinsic Cognitive Load
34. Extraneous Cognitive Load
35. Germane Cognitive Load
36. Created using ChatGPT and the Data Analytics Plugin
37. Team Pattern 2
38. Interaction Pattern 1: Facilitating
39. Team Pattern 3
40. Platform = Product
41. Interaction Pattern 2: X-as-a-Service
42. Team Pattern 4
43. Interaction Pattern 2: X-as-a-Service
44. Enabling Team Stream Aligned Team 1 Stream Aligned Team 2 Stream Aligned Team 3 Platform Team
45. Four Team Types Three Modes of Interaction The Team Topologies Pattern Language
46. Interaction Pattern 3: Collaboration
47. Organizations are dynamic
48. Stream Aligned Team 1 Stream Aligned Team 1 Platform Team Platform Team Collaboration X-as-a-Service Change over Time
49. Four Team Types Three Modes of Interaction The Team Topologies Pattern Language
50. “Everything is very complicated but in some areas Team Topologies can help.” Fred Sinowatz, ???? https://www. fl ickr.com/photos/sicutat/3451865211/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9374317
51. Thank You!