Organisational Design — Software Architecture

Conway's Law concept

Conway's Law; Inverse Conway Maneuver; three organisational structures (Pflaeging); tool choices as communication drivers; unexpected communication as diagnostic signal; organisation design as technical work

Manuel Pais author

Co-author of *Team Topologies*; DevOps and platform engineering consultant; team interaction and organisational sensing specialist

Matthew Skelton author

Co-author of *Team Topologies*; co-creator of Team Topologies model; fast flow and organisational design specialist

Team Cognitive Load concept

Sweller's three cognitive load types (intrinsic/extraneous/germane); team cognitive capacity as software boundary constraint; domain complexity heuristics; platform as extraneous load eliminator

Team Topologies Model concept

Four team types (stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated-subsystem); three interaction modes with constraints/matrix; Dunbar-based team sizing; team API; one-owner-per-component rule; promise theory / SemVer; organisational sensing; discovery-to-establish pattern; topology evolution triggers; TVP; fractal platforms; Spotify model; DevOps anti-patterns

Team Topologies: Organising Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow source

*Team Topologies* — Skelton & Pais

Westrum Organisational Culture concept

Ron Westrum's organisational culture typology (pathological/bureaucratic/generative); information flow as core mechanism; Likert measurement with psychometric validation; predicts delivery performance, org performance, job satisfaction; how to improve culture (implement practices first); blameless postmortems; Google Project Aristotle alignment