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