How does this skill help with cognitive load?

It provides guidelines and templates to assess whether a team's responsibilities exceed their mental capacity, offering patterns to split or reassign work effectively.

Which team types does this skill support?

It supports the four fundamental types: Stream-aligned teams, Platform teams, Enabling teams, and Complicated Subsystem teams.

What is the primary goal of the Team Topologies skill?

The primary goal is to help software organizations align their team structures with their technical architecture to reduce friction and improve the flow of value.

Is this based on the official Team Topologies methodology?

Yes, the skill is based on the methodologies and patterns established by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais in their book Team Topologies.

Team Topologies Designer

Name: Team Topologies Designer
Author: melodic-software

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Designs and optimizes organizational structures using the four fundamental team types and interaction modes from the Team Topologies methodology.

The Team Topologies skill empowers developers and managers to apply the Skelton & Pais methodology directly within their workflow to improve software delivery flow. It provides comprehensive guidance on organizing around Stream-aligned, Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem teams while managing cognitive load and interaction modes. By using standardized assessment templates and a documentation-first approach, the skill helps identify delivery bottlenecks, map dependencies, and evolve organizational structures to match modern software architecture requirements.

主な機能

01Guidance on interaction modes (Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating)

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03Standardized team topology assessment templates

04Automated team type classification and gap analysis

05Cognitive load assessment and optimization patterns

06Documentation-first team design workflow integration

ユースケース

01Auditing existing team boundaries to identify and mitigate cognitive overload

02Restructuring a growing engineering department to reduce cross-team dependencies

03Designing a new internal Developer Platform to support multiple product streams

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins team-topologies

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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