The document discusses various team topologies in the context of DevOps, identifying anti-types that represent ineffective structures, such as separate silos and unnecessary layers. It outlines nine potential team types that can facilitate effective collaboration and service delivery within DevOps, emphasizing that there is no single 'right' topology but multiple detrimental configurations. The discussion aims to guide organizations in transforming their team structures for better operational efficiency.

1. Long live the DevOps team!
effective team topologies
Matthew Skelton & Rob Thatcher
@matthewpskelton / @robtthatcher
Skelton Thatcher Consulting, skeltonthatcher.com
Tues 15th September 2015,
Edinburgh DevOps meetup group, #EdinDevOps

2. devopstopologies.com

4. Anti-Type A – Separate Silos
Dev Ops

5. Anti-Type B – Separate DevOps Silo
Dev OpsDevOps

6. Anti-Type C – “We Don’t Need Ops”
Dev OpsDevOps

7. Anti-Type D –
‘DevOps’ team as another Dev team
Dev Ops
DevOps

8. Anti-Type E –
DevOps as the new SysAdmin team
Dev OpsDevOps

9. Anti-Type F –
Ops embedded in a Dev Team
Dev
Ops
HT: Matt Franz
(@seclectech)
DevOps

10. Anti-Type G – Dev-DBA gap!
Dev OpsDBA

11. financial services
online payments
software tools
publishing
car hire
legal software
Where?

14. Type 1 – Smooth Collaboration
Dev Ops[DevOps]

15. Type 2 – Fully Embedded
Dev Ops

16. Type 3 – Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Dev Ops[DevOps]

17. Type 4 – DevOps-as-a-Service
Dev Ops[DevOps]

18. Type 5 – Temporary DevOps Team
Dev OpsDevOps

19. Type 6 – ‘Facilitating’ DevOps Team
Dev OpsDevOps

20. Type 7 – SRE Team (Google)
Dev Ops
[DevOps]
SRE
HT: @kwdhinde

21. Type 8 – ‘Just run my Containers’
Dev Ops[DevOps]
HT: @jascbu

22. Type 9 – DB capability in Dev
Dev OpsDBA
[DevOps]
DB Dev

23. Type 9 – DB as a Service
Dev OpsDBaaS
[DevOps]
DB Dev

24. Enterprise – multiple types
HT: @EricMinick, IBM

25. https://twitter.com/EricMinick/status/517335119330172930

26. There is no ‘right’ team topology,
but several ‘bad’ topologies for
any one organisation

27. devopstopologies.com

28. InfoQ
http://www.infoq.com/articles/devops-
team-topologies

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Thank you
Matthew Skelton
@matthewpskelton
Rob Thatcher
@robtthatcher