Introducing Team Topologies
The organizational architecture is built upon teams as its fundamental building blocks. These teams translate the key functions and capabilities identified in the architecture into reality. In this section, we’ll delve into the core concepts of Team Topologies, a team-centered framework for organizational design defined by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Then, we’ll leverage this framework throughout this chapter to describe how to optimally structure teams within the data management function so that we can manage data as a product.
Dissecting organizational architecture
An organization is a complex socio-technical system. Organizational architecture describes how the social part of this system is structured. Specifically, organizational architecture describes how an organization instantiates and governs the capabilities necessary to implement the key value streams for the realization of its business model. Organizational architecture...
