Governance is key to a thriving platform! It sets clear roles, ensures accountability, and builds trust. How do you approach governance in your projects? Share your tips! #PlatformGovernance #Transparency #Leadership
Dries
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Ever wondered what cognitive load looks like in real teams? Visualizing it helps spot overload early and adjust tasks for better flow. How do you notice stress building in your team? #CognitiveLoad #Teamwork #Wellbeing
Great teams don’t always agree.
But they move together anyway.
Alignment is shared direction, not shared opinion.
Agreement is optional. Alignment is essential.
A roadmap lists what you’ll build.
A strategy decides why you’re building it.
One follows a track.
The other decides which track is worth taking.
IT systems are getting more complex.
Not because we’re bad at KISS — but because complexity is inevitable.
Tesler’s Law teaches: you can’t remove complexity, only decide who deals with it.
In my new blog, I argue that chasing “complexity KPIs” often hides the real problem.
Instead, we need to organize around complexity — like Team Topologies and Wardley Mapping show us.
🌐 Blog: https://damsdri.me/posts/the-complexity-model/
#DevOps #TeamTopologies #Complexity #SoftwareEntropy #WardleyMapping
A developer portal is an interface.
A platform is a product.
If it doesn’t reduce cognitive load or create autonomy, it’s just a UI on top of complexity.
When I join a new client, I start with team interaction—not tech.
Team Topologies helps me map ownership, overload, and friction.
It’s not just a model. It’s a mirror.
Just because no one’s interfering doesn’t mean your team is autonomous.
Autonomy needs support. Clarity. Decision rights.
Independence without that is just drift.
Everyone talks about flow. But Team Topologies is about more than speed.
It’s about designing orgs where people can actually work—without drowning in handovers or dependency hell.
Improved Work-life balance with Team Topologies
Work-life balance is one of those concepts that means different things to different people. For some, it’s about shutting the laptop at 5 PM and never thinking about work until the next morning. For others, it’s about the flexibility to work when inspiration strikes—whether that’s at 6 AM, 10 PM, or somewhere in between. At its core, though, we all want the same thing: to enjoy both our personal and professional lives, without one constantly intruding on the other. We want the freedom to work in a way that suits us best, rather than being locked into rigid schedules dictated by dependencies and bottlenecks.
Cognitive load isn’t theory. It’s what drags down real teams.
If your engineers are juggling tools, switching contexts, and owning tech they don’t understand, it’s too much.
Focused teams deliver. Distracted ones burn out.