I joined PureGym in 2015 and while we had a small team, we utilized the benefits of Project teams alongside a small BAU team. These short-lived highly focused teams that could deliver a project before reconfiguring for the next task.

As the department grew both in numbers of engineers and in products owned there was a need to revisit this structure, to reduce cognitive load and increase ownership in order to increase throughput.

At the end of 2019 over the space of 2 months we designed a structure around the ideas set out in team topologies book. Along with Rich Allen we documented our process for the team topologies blog.

The full article can be read over on the team topologies website - Team Topologies at PureGym responding better to business Needs with well defined software teams.