Teams & Organization
How the people are arranged: team types and interaction modes, cognitive load, dojos and chapters, T-shaped skills, and what happens when an org chart meets the actual work.
112 terms filed here — every definition a credited primary source.
- ADDIE modelSwim Don’t Sink: Why Training Matters to a SRE / DevOps Practice
- Agile3 books define this
- agile developmentThe DevOps Handbook
- AgilityA Seat at the Table
- AI within team operationsAI and Industrial DevOps Teams
- alignmentProgressive Delivery
- alignment gap2 books define this
- big company diseaseModule 1 / Lesson 1: Introduction to Flow Engineering
- bimodal trapDevOps And Modernization 2.0
- Brooks’s lawTeam Topologies, First Edition
- bubblesA Radical Enterprise
- bureaucracyMark Schwartz x Shaaron Alvares
- burger organization chartDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- business IT isomorphismDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- clientBeyond Agile Auditing
- cognitive load2 books · 1 talk
- cognitive slopeValue Stream Reference Architecture — Breaking Free from “The Way We’ve Always Done IT” Mindset!
- coherentWiring the Winning Organization
- collaboration modeTeam Topologies, First Edition
- competimatesExpanding DevOps Principles to Large Complex Solutions
- Complex adaptive system3 books define this
- complicated-subsystem team3 books · 1 talk
- contractor-control paradigmA Seat at the Table
- craftA Radical Enterprise
- daily planningIndustrial DevOps
- demo loungeGetting Started with Dojos
- developerBeyond Agile Auditing
- devolution1 book · 1 talk
- devolution of managementA Radical Enterprise
- DevOps2 books · 9 talks
- Dojo2 books · 1 talk
- Double SlingshotRaising Seniors
- Dunbar’s numberTeam Topologies, First Edition
- enabling team3 books define this
- encapsulatedThe Art of Business Value
- engineerThe DevOps Handbook
- exploratory chartersOn the Care and Feeding of Feedback Cycles
- extraneous cognitive load2 books define this
- facilitating mode2 books define this
- feature team1 book · 1 talk
- Finding nowRaising Seniors
- flight level oneManaging the Flow of Value in Service Organizations
- front-end teamDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- fully devolvedA Radical Enterprise
- fully devolved organizationA Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High Performance
- functional labor poolsOperations: The Last Mile Problem For DevOps in the Enterprise
- Garbage Can ModelGrappling with the Bitter Lesson
- germane cognitive load3 books · 1 talk
- group cognition3.2: Group Trust Boundaries
- HeterarchyA Radical Enterprise
- home teamFrom Project to Product to Problem-Solving
- horizontal and vertical integrityDevOps: Tempo, Maneuverability, and Initiative
- human-centered designA Radical Enterprise
- Innersource1 book · 1 talk
- intrinsic cognitive load2 books define this
- inverted apprenticeshipState of AI-assisted Software Development: 2025 DORA Report
- isomorphicWiring the Winning Organization
- IT skills assetA Seat at the Table
- Joint problem-solvingWiring the Winning Organization
- layer threeOvercoming Challenges for a Successful SRE Organizational Setup
- LeSSDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- lunch factorWednesday Opening Remarks
- managerial devolution1 book · 1 talk
- microenterprisesA Radical Enterprise
- monolithic thinking2 books define this
- monolithic workplace2 books define this
- Multi-Disciplinary TeamDare to Do - Multi-disciplinary Digital Ecosystem and DevOps at KPMG Switzerland
- Objective ModelWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- open source industrial complexExemplars, Laggards, and Hoarders: A Data-Driven Look at Open Source Software Supply Chains
- Organizational assetWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- organizational sensingTeam Topologies, First Edition
- outcome managerOutput to Outcome
- outcome teamA Radical Enterprise
- outer platformTeam Topologies
- pairingThe DevOps Handbook
- Platform2 books · 1 talk
- platform groupingTeam Topologies
- platform team5 books define this
- PMIDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- power of threeBarclays Cloud Experience Report: “From Racks and Cables to the Cloud”
- prescriptive methodsFlow Engineering
- Process agilityWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Product Model2 books define this
- product ownerThe Art of Business Value
- psychological ownershipCreating Ownership to help Change Efforts Succeed
- purple peopleRe-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps Story
- rational-legalThe (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy
- rational-metricalThe (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy
- reverse Conway maneuver3 books · 2 talks
- ScrumButPositioning Agile and Continuous Delivery for Auditors and Examiners
- self-serveACCOUNTING VS. PHYSICS – Coordination Costs and How Organizations Win
- shared operations teamsProduct Management Meets DevOps
- siloed labor poolsThe Talent You Need Is Already Inside Your Company
- small T-shaped teamsMore Culture, More Engineering, Less Duct Tape v3.0
- social circuitryWiring the Winning Organization
- sprintThe DevOps Handbook
- Stand-UpMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- streamTeam Topologies
- stream-aligned team3 books · 1 talk
- stream-aligned teamsTeam Topologies
- SuccessOrganizing for Success
- systems integrator (SI)DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- T-Shaped3 books define this
- T-shaped professional54,000 Tales - A Data-driven Discussion of Exemplar Development and DevSecOps
- teamTeam Topologies Reader's Guide
- team API2 books define this
- Team Cognitive LoadThe Science Behind Team Cognitive Load and Why It Matters for Engaged Teams
- team interaction modes4.7: Summary
- Team TopologiesTeam Topologies, First Edition
- technical product ownerProject to Product Transformation
- two-pizza teamFrom Project to Product to Problem-Solving
- Value Stream NetworkProject to Product