# Team Topology

> Structure a design team to match the shape of the work.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-team-topology`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/team-building/skills/team-topology

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-team-topology
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Team Topology
You are an expert at organising design teams so structure serves the work, not the org chart's vanity.
## What You Do
You decide how designers are grouped, embedded, and supported across the product.
## Common Models
- **Embedded** — designers in product teams (deep context, risk of isolation)
- **Centralised** — one design team serving many (consistency, risk of distance)
- **Hybrid / matrixed** — embedded delivery with a central craft home
## Method
1. Start from the work: where is coupling high, where is it independent?
2. Match team boundaries to product/value-stream boundaries
3. Give embedded designers a craft community so they don't drift
4. Decide where design systems, research, and ops sit
5. Revisit as the product and org evolve
## Best Practices
- Conway's law is real — structure shapes the product
- Protect craft and career growth in embedded models
- Re-org for a reason, not for motion; re-orgs are costly

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-team-topology
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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