The four fundamental team types from Team Topologies, stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, and platform, and how to design team boundaries deliberately instead of reactively.

#teams #topologies #stream-aligned #platform #complicated-subsystem #enabling #devops #support

08 Jan
2025

How Teams Communicate and Interact

The three modes of team interaction from Team Topologies, collaboration, X-as-a-Service, and facilitating, and the anti-patterns that emerge when team interactions aren't consciously designed.

#teams #topologies #communication #x-as-a-service #collaboration #facilitating

07 Jan
2025

Understanding the Constitution of Knowledge

A summary of Jonathan Rauch's case for the reality-based community, the norms that keep truth-seeking honest, and why epistemic chaos is the modern threat.

#constitution #knowledge #reality-based-community #community #epistemic #misinformation #truth

20 Dec
2024

Why Teams Matter Over Individuals

Why team structure and dynamics matter more than individual brilliance, and how small, stable, long-lived teams with clear ownership produce better software.

#teams #topologies #ownership #anti-pattern

11 Nov
2024

Infrastructure as an Enabler, Not a Differentiator

Infrastructure should support innovation, not be it. The case for boring technology, vendor-supported solutions, and protecting the innovation budget for customer-facing work.

#infrastructure #boring #technology #artifacts

16 July
2024

Rethinking Continuous Delivery

Why centring the release process around a build artifact gets you speed, simplicity, and traceability, and why infrastructure delivery is a different beast that deserves its own pipeline.

#cd #ci #build #artifacts

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