Conway’s law tells us that an organization’s structure and the actual communication paths between teams persevere in the resulting architecture of the systems built.

A stream-aligned team is a team aligned to a single, valuable stream of work; this might be a single product or service, a single set of features, a single user journey, or a single user persona.

We consider the team to be the smallest entity of delivery within the organization.

apply the reverse Conway maneuver: designing teams to match the desired architecture.

A fracture plane is a natural seam in the software system that allows the system to be split easily into two or more parts. This

Work is never handed off to another team for a later stage in the flow.

Most teams in a flow-optimized organization should be long-lived, multi-disciplined, stream-aligned teams.

a platform is composed of groups of other fundamental team types: stream aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem, and platform. Yes:

For a fast flow of change to software systems, we need to remove hand-offs and