Sociotechnical Systems and Team Design

Explain Conway's Law and its practical implications for system architecture in large organizations.

Describe the Team Topologies model and its four fundamental team types (stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, platform).

Analyze how coupling between services maps to required team interactions and communication overhead.

Identify organizational signals (e.g., bottlenecks, coordination overhead) that indicate misalignment between team structure and system architecture.

Apply the inverse Conway maneuver to realign team boundaries with a desired target architecture.