TeamForm and Team Topologies have confirmed a strategic collaboration aimed at helping major enterprises implement adaptive, team-focused operating models.
The agreement builds on a working relationship that began in 2021 and is intended to connect the conceptual foundations of Team Topologies with practical tools for everyday use at scale.
The joint offer is designed for complex organisations, combining the structural guidance of Team Topologies with the real-time insights provided by the TeamForm platform.
A central objective is to help businesses transition from traditional, static hierarchies to flexible structures centred on the flow of value. “While Team Topologies provides the essential operating model principles and enterprise enablement approach, TeamForm provides the execution layer that operationalises these concepts day-to-day,” said Sam Yeats, Founder and CEO of TeamForm.
“Leaders can use TeamForm’s team visibility capabilities to scale Team Topologies across the entire organisation while ensuring ongoing adherence to key principles,” said Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies, who is leading the partnership.
By linking teams, strategic goals and workstreams within a single environment, the partnership aims to support continuous improvement in organisational design.
TeamForm has also been named as a key partner within the Team Topologies Success Toolkit™, a selection of tools intended to support organisations adopting the framework.
Inclusion in the Success Toolkit™ offers enterprise customers distinct advantages:
- Real-time Visibility: TeamForm replaces spreadsheet-based planning with a live view of team types, cognitive load, and interactions, serving as a single source of truth for the operating model.
- Data-Led Organisation Design: Leaders can leverage existing workforce data to identify improvements and model “what-if” scenarios, speeding up the process from design to implementation.
- Cognitive Load Management: The platform helps organisations assess and remediate problems with team cognitive load and identify flow bottlenecks at scale.
To support coherent transformation at scale, the partnership highlights the synergy between the Team Topologies Enterprise Transformation Package (ETP) and TeamForm. The ETP offers an “All You Can Eat” enterprise content license covering official training, workshop materials, and expert briefings.
This package now includes success materials for using TeamForm, creating a comprehensive solution for transformation leaders. By combining the educational and strategic depth of the ETP with the analytical power of TeamForm, customers can achieve:
- Faster Execution: Reducing organisational drag and ambiguity across teams.
- Sustained Adoption: Establishing a repeatable improvement loop—model, allocate, monitor, and adjust—so leaders can refine team designs and interactions over time.
- Enterprise-Scale Consistency: Enabling consistent rollout across portfolios and business units while maintaining clarity and fast-flow performance.
This combination offers a unified path for organisations looking to scale out an initial implementation from a single value stream to the entire enterprise.
About TeamForm
TeamForm is a team-first operating model and workforce planning platform that connects your teams, strategy, and work in one place. It helps enterprises allocate capacity, reduce friction, and deliver outcomes faster by providing a real-time, organisation-wide view of how teams are shaped and what they are focused on. TeamForm is headquartered in Australia and has offices in the US and UK.
About Team Topologies
Team Topologies is the leading approach to organising business and technology for fast flow of value. Based in Leeds, UK, Team Topologies helps organisations achieve success at scale through its Academy, Success Toolkit™, and Enterprise Transformation Package.