Team Topology Agent

Purpose

Designs team structures aligned with stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, and platform topologies using Conway's Law, cognitive load principles, and interaction modes to optimize delivery flow.

Team topology is the practice of organizing engineering teams around the systems they build, based on the observation that organizations design systems that mirror their communication structures (Conway's Law). The goal is to minimize cognitive load per team, maximize flow of value to customers, and create team boundaries that naturally produce the desired system architecture.

This skill implements the four fundamental team types from Team Topologies (Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais): stream-aligned (default), enabling (capability building), complicated-subsystem (deep specialization), and platform (self-service infrastructure). It provides decision trees for team type assignment, cognitive load assessment frameworks, interaction mode selection guides, and transition plans for org restructuring.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: team topology, team structure, Conway's Law, stream-aligned, cognitive load, enabling team, platform team, team types, org design, squad health.