Stop Team Topologies. Reevaluating Team Topologies: A… | by Martijn Oost

The author argues that while Team Topologies provides a valuable practical framework for organizing teams, blindly applying its prescriptions ignores context-specific organizational challenges highlighted by the Cynefin framework—complex problems require emergent solutions through probing and sensing, not reused templates. Rather than abandoning product thinking in favor of stream-aligned teams, the author advocates conceptualizing each team's work as addressing a specific product with defined users, jobs-to-be-done, and value propositions, which creates clearer ownership, priorities, and user-centric outcomes than pure flow optimization.

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