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# Team Topologies Knowledge Base Team Topologies is an approach to designing team-of-teams organizations for fast flow of value. It provides a shared vocabulary and practical patterns for how to structure, name, and evolve software delivery teams at scale. The central insight: organizational design is not a one-time event. Teams and their interactions must evolve continuously as products, architectures, and business needs change. ## Four Fundamental Team Types Every team in the organization should map to exactly one of these types. Hybrids create confusion and slow delivery. ### 1. Stream-aligned team The primary team type. Delivers direct, continuous value to customers aligned to a business domain or value stream. Owns outcomes end-to-end — no handoffs to other teams to complete delivery. - Long-lived, stable membership - Full responsibility for the product/service lifecycle - Should be the most common team type in the organization - All other team types exist to serve or support stream-aligned teams ### 2. Platform team Creates and operates an internal platform — a curated set of services, tools, and APIs — that reduces cognitive load on stream-aligned teams. The platform is treated as a product with its own roadmap and customers (the stream-aligned teams). - Exposes capabilities via APIs and self-service interfaces - Avoids building bespoke solutions for individual consumers - Success metric: stream-aligned teams move faster because of the platform, not in spite