Works
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, IT Revolution Press (first edition September 2019, 240 pages, ISBN 9781942788812; second edition 2025), 2019
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Team Topologies (practitioner)
Ideas
Team topologies. With Pais, Skelton proposed designing a technology organization from its teams outward, with four team types (stream-aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem, and platform) and three interaction modes (collaboration, X-as-a-service, and facilitation), each team's remit sized by its cognitive load. Caveat: A practitioner framework with no study behind it.