# Team Topologies & Cynefin *Source: · 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: 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](../wardley/index.html), 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 - **Cynefin — Dave Snowden** — the sensemaking framework; the clear/complicated/complex/chaotic distinction is the transferable part - **A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (HBR, 2007)** — Snowden and Boone's most-read statement of it ## 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](../../admin/comms.html#q2) is answered. **Research plan.** [Q2](../../admin/comms.html#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.