Five years of Team Topologies: Reflections and predictions for the future

It’s been five years since the publication of Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton, which built the foundation for the platform engineering revolution. This roundtable with co-author Manuel Pais will celebrate this influential book and highlight how far we’ve come –– and still have to go.

Published in 2019, the book Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton is a key milestone in the platform engineering movement. A foundational text of platform engineering, it identifies cognitive load as one of the main reasons for slow software delivery. The book also establishes core concepts like platform teams, platform as a product, and thinnest viable platforms following the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach as the fundamentals of platform engineering.

Team Topologies has become one of the leading approaches to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, providing a practical, step-by‑step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction.

We are very pleased to announce this 5th anniversary roundtable with Manuel Pais, joined by Nicki Watt (CEO/CTO at OpenCredo), Paul Ingles (Uswitch), and Torill Iversen (NAV).

During the roundtable, we will discuss:

• Team Topologies impact on the platform engineering movement
• Success stories of the approach
• Obstacles practitioners came across when implementing
• What we have learned since 2019
• New challenges that have emerged since (topics for a second edition?)
• What the future holds

After a 30-minute panel there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Manuel Pais, Co-author of Team Topologies
Manuel Pais is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognized by TechBeacon as a DevOps thought leader, Manuel is an independent IT organizational consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating flow. Manuel is also a LinkedIn instructor on accelerating Continuous Delivery in the enterprise.