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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Manuel Pais, Matthew Skelton
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I picked up "Team Topologies" from the library so that I could better understand the puzzling arrangements of shapes in "Data Mesh in Action". Hoo, boy.
This book is right up there with "The Mythical Man-Month" as one of the worst tech books I've ever read. The authors claim to take "a humanistic approach to building software systems while setting up organizations for strategic adaptability." Well, they *claim* to take a "humanistic" approach, but in fact their vision of "sociotechnical design" is a neo-Taylorist dystopia: "treating people and technology as a single human/computer carbon/silicon sociotechnical ecosystem".
The managerial pseudoscience in this book is so egregious that it could have been grown in a lab at McKinsey & Company. The authors cling to Conway's Law and Dunbar's Number the way that neoliberals cling to the Laffer curve. Their understanding of "communication" and "cognitive load" leads them to advocate for the team-design equivalent of putting blinders on a horse. But hey, if you follow the authors' advice, you too can join the ranks of the gambling websites and credit reporting agencies profiled in this book, using a model of Agile that Spotify tried and then abandoned!
This book is right up there with "The Mythical Man-Month" as one of the worst tech books I've ever read. The authors claim to take "a humanistic approach to building software systems while setting up organizations for strategic adaptability." Well, they *claim* to take a "humanistic" approach, but in fact their vision of "sociotechnical design" is a neo-Taylorist dystopia: "treating people and technology as a single human/computer carbon/silicon sociotechnical ecosystem".
The managerial pseudoscience in this book is so egregious that it could have been grown in a lab at McKinsey & Company. The authors cling to Conway's Law and Dunbar's Number the way that neoliberals cling to the Laffer curve. Their understanding of "communication" and "cognitive load" leads them to advocate for the team-design equivalent of putting blinders on a horse. But hey, if you follow the authors' advice, you too can join the ranks of the gambling websites and credit reporting agencies profiled in this book, using a model of Agile that Spotify tried and then abandoned!