Team Topologies & Cynefin
Source: https://influences.sgit.ai/register/team-topologies-cynefin/index.html↗ · markdown twin of the entry page.
An influence on Dinis Cruz — one of 25 entries in his register.
- tier discovered — surfaced by mining the corpus, not on Dinis Cruz's list — a falsifiable claim until he confirms it
- kind frameworks
- status stub — blocks 1 and 3, plus the research plan — awaiting Dinis Cruz's briefing document
- briefing requested
Listed beside Wardley in a 2019 hiring post. One mention is enough to notice and not enough to claim — so this is a discovered stub, published at the strength of its evidence.
Block 1 — The anchor
Team Topologies (Skelton & Pais, 2019) and the Cynefin framework (Snowden, 1999)
- anchor: https://teamtopologies.com/ ↗
Two frameworks, bundled because the corpus bundles them. If Dinis Cruz confirms, they should probably be separated — they answer different questions.
Linked, never rehosted.
Block 2 — In his own words
The honest statement of the evidence: a hiring post from 2019 lists these beside Wardley↗, and Wardley turned out to be one of the deepest-traced influences in the register. Proximity in a list is not evidence of equal weight, and this entry is a stub because the site declines to infer one from the other.
What makes it worth publishing anyway: naming Cynefin means having a position on when a practice is appropriate rather than universally good, and that position — different problems need different methods — is visible in how the estate handles its own uncertainty. Consistent with the influence, and consistent with several other things too.
Block 3 — The principle
Organisational structure and problem-domain sensemaking are engineering concerns: the shape of the team decides the shape of the system, and the kind of problem decides which practice is appropriate.
Block 7 — The wider library
- Team Topologies — Skelton & Pais (2019) — four team types and three interaction modes https://teamtopologies.com/ ↗
- Cynefin — Dave Snowden — the sensemaking framework; the clear/complicated/complex/chaotic distinction is the transferable part https://thecynefin.co/ ↗
- A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (HBR, 2007) — Snowden and Boone's most-read statement of it https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making ↗
Awaiting the briefing document
Found by mining and never claimed by Dinis Cruz, on the strength of a single mention. Published at the tier its evidence supports, and it will move — in either direction — when Q2 ↗ is answered.
Research plan. Q2 ↗ first: does this belong at all, or is it a citation rather than an influence? If confirmed, separate the two frameworks and look for Team Topologies vocabulary — stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated-subsystem — in the estate's team-roles system, and for Cynefin's domains in how work is triaged.
The corpus evidence
| Path in the corpus | What it carries |
|---|---|
(a 2019 hiring post) | both frameworks listed beside Wardley mapping; the only occurrence the mining run found |
CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.