Published in 2019, the book Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton is a key milestone in the platform engineering movement. A foundational text of platform engineering, it identifies cognitive load as one of the main reasons for slow software delivery. The book also establishes core concepts like platform teams, platform as a product, and thinnest viable platforms following the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach as the fundamentals of platform engineering.

Team Topologies has become one of the leading approaches to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, providing a practical, step-by‑step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction.

We are very pleased to announce this 5th anniversary roundtable with Manuel Pais, joined by Nicki Watt (CEO/CTO at OpenCredo), Paul Ingles (Uswitch), and Torill Iversen (NAV).

During the roundtable, we will discuss:

• Team Topologies impact on the platform engineering movement
• Success stories of the approach
• Obstacles practitioners came across when implementing
• What we have learned since 2019
• New challenges that have emerged since (topics for a second edition?)
• What the future holds