a team aligned to a single, valuable stream of work.
stream-aligned team
3 of our books and 1 talk define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
Stream-aligned team: aligned to a flow of work from (usually) a segment of the business domain.
— Remote Team Interactions Workbook, in “Introduction”, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Stream-aligned team: focused on a single flow of work from (usually) a segment of the business domain.
— The Value Flywheel Effect, in “Chapter 14: The Frictionless Dev Experience”, David Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O'Reilly
a cross-functional team, mix of skills, with end-to-end responsibility for kind of build and running of a part of the software system, business domain, set of kind of features
— Manuel Pais, Matthew Skelton · Team Topologies in Action: Early Results from Industry, Las Vegas 2020 · at 2:47
See also stream · team · enabling team · Brooks’s law · cognitive load · collaboration mode
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