Enabling team
An enabling team is a specialist team that helps other teams acquire capabilities and overcome technical or organizational obstacles without permanently owning their work.
Effective Platform Engineering
An enabling team is a team that temporarily provides specialized expertise and guidance to help other teams build capabilities and develop technical practices.
- How it is used
- Builds specialized capabilities in stream-aligned teams through temporary guidance, training, consultation, and knowledge sharing.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the team’s boundary and functions, then demonstrates cloud-migration assistance without detailing operating procedures or measurement.
- Examples
- Uses workshops, consultations, standards, documentation, templates, and cloud-architecture guidance during service migration.
- What you can do after
- Apply temporary expertise to help teams adopt technologies and practices while transferring knowledge for greater independence.
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Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
An enabling team is a Team Topologies team that helps stream-aligned teams acquire capabilities and overcome obstacles without permanently taking ownership of their work.
- How it is used
- Helps stream-aligned teams acquire capabilities, overcome obstacles, and become more autonomous without transferring permanent ownership.
- How deep it goes
- Defines responsibilities, support techniques, skill examples, project use, and expiry conditions, but does not specify detailed operating procedures.
- Examples
- Uses continuous delivery, EventStorming, workshop facilitation, chaos engineering, and architecture modernization as examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply facilitating, teaching, and hands-on support while designing an exit condition for the enabling team.
Related concepts
- team topologieskind of · Team Topologies is an organizational design framework for structuring teams and their interactions to improve the flow of value in software delivery.
- team typekind of · A team type is a recognized organizational pattern for assigning a team's responsibilities and role in software delivery.
- stream-aligned teamproduces · A stream-aligned team is a long-lived team organized around a continuous flow of customer or business value, with responsibility for delivering and maintaining its product or service.
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