Conway’s Law states that organisations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. But the relationship between teams and architecture is not one-directional — the way you shape your architecture also feeds back into how your teams collaborate and evolve. This interplay is at the heart of Team Topologies, a framework by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais that has reshaped how many engineering organisations think about team design.

I joined Patrick Akil on the Beyond Coding podcast for a conversation about how restructuring teams affects the software they build, the pitfalls of getting it wrong, and practical lessons from working through these changes as an Engineering Manager.