Team Types in Depth

Purpose and scope

Detail stream-aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem, and platform team responsibilities.

Outcomes

• Clear ownership and fewer handoffs.
• Reduced cognitive load and rework.
• Faster decisions at the edge.

Signals of trouble

• Frequent escalations across unclear boundaries.
• Overloaded stream teams maintaining shared infrastructure.
• Stalled adoption of new practices.

Remediation steps

1. Define charters and interfaces; publish in the handbook.
2. Reassign shared components to platform or subsystem teams.
3. Create an enablement calendar for new capabilities.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/stream-aligned-teams/checklist.md charter items.

References

• “Team Topologies”; org maps; service catalog ownership.