Team Cognitive Health playbook/Module 8 · Communication

Day 78 / 100 · Communication · Cross-team communication

Design team interfaces like an API.

Most friction lives between teams, not within them. Team Topologies suggests each team publish a clear “team API”: how to work with it.

Team API

How To Work With Us

  • What we own
  • How to request work
  • Response expectations

Named links

People, Not Just Tickets

  • A contact for each dependency
  • Regular short syncs
  • Escalation path agreed

Shared forums

See Each Other's World

  • Joint demos and planning
  • Shared incident reviews
  • Rotations and shadowing

Source: Team Topologies ↗

Design team interfaces like an API.