Team shape
Who sits with whom, who owns what, and what breaks if anyone leaves.
- Topology: who sits with whom, who owns whatSoon
Conway's law makes topology a first-order leadership decision.
- Seniority mix and the cost of imbalanceSoon
Too many seniors: gridlock. Too many juniors: low ceiling.
- Succession and single points of failureSoon
If one person leaving breaks the team, the team was built wrong.
- Remote, hybrid, async defaultsSoon
The specific practices that make distributed teams work.