Seven Archetypes of Org Topologies

Org Topologies is a mapping of recognizable organizational archetypes in product development. We are using the following two axes for creating the two-dimensional map:

1. Grow team-level autonomy — by deepening cross-functionality to become fluent in delivering value fast.
2. Grow customer-centric alignment — by broadening understanding of the problem space.

Being organizational consultants and field practitioners, we (Alexey and Roland) have assembled and generalized our recollections of many organizations that we have…