Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

by Matthew Skelton

In this respect, we draw on ideas from Bruce Tuckman (who proposed the four-stages model—forming, storming, norming, performing—for team development in his 1965 paper “Developmental Sequence in Small Groups”), Russ Forrester and Allan Drexler (who explored team-based organization performance in their 1999 paper “A Model for Team-Based Organization Performance”), Pamela Knight (who found evidence that storming takes place throughout the entire lifetime of a team in her 2007 paper “Acquisition Community Team Dynamics: The Tuckman Model vs. the DAU Model”), Patrick Lencioni (who explores common interaction issues in his seminal book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable), and similar team-focused theories and research.