▸case-05 We are creating a Security Enablement group to raise security practices across 10 delivery teams. Should this group take over writing security tests for all teams or mandate a fixed vendor tool switch? | pass→pass | 14,527 | 13,377 | -8% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,245 | 3,009 | +34% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-06 Our financial trading application contains a highly specialized algorithmic risk calculation engine requiring deep Ph.D.-level mathematics and domain expertise. General stream-aligned teams are struggling with its cognitive load. How should this component be handled in terms of team topology? | pass→pass | 13,779 | 13,546 | -2% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,148 | 3,181 | +48% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-01 我们前端小组只有6个人，但每天要同时应对多个业务线需求、组件库维护、打包发布异常以及频繁的跨部门需求询问，大家疲于奔命且事故频发。请对我团队当前的运转状态进行一次诊断，帮我把这些工作压力的来源归类分析，并提供一份按优先级排序的减负与优化改进建议。 | fail→pass | 21,356 | 24,189 | +13% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 3,244 | 4,541 | +40% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-02 Our engineering department has grown to 30 engineers working on a single monolithic system, leading to code collision and slow delivery. Management wants to split them into three functional silos: QA team, Backend team, and Frontend team to streamline management. How should we restructure this division? | pass→pass | 16,546 | 14,826 | -10% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,556 | 3,342 | +31% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-03 A stream-aligned team and a platform team need to work together for two months to establish a new API gateway standard through rapid joint experimentation. What interaction mode should be established, and how long should it run? | pass→pass | 5,380 | 14,837 | +176% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 944 | 2,599 | +175% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-04 Our infrastructure team built a centralized platform for cloud deployments, but now requires all stream-aligned teams to submit ticket requests to them for manual approval before deploying to staging or production. How should this platform model be evaluated and adjusted? | pass→pass | 16,273 | 13,853 | -15% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,520 | 3,237 | +28% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-07 Our CTO wants every team to participate in weekly sync meetings with all other 12 teams in the company to maximize transparent communication. What communication policy recommendation should be given? | pass→pass | 12,296 | 16,036 | +30% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,969 | 3,455 | +75% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-08 We want to transition our monolith into decoupled microservices, but team management insists on keeping the single centralized DB administration and centralized release engineering departments. How will this affect our technical architecture targets? | fail→fail | 17,401 | 12,820 | -26% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,420 | 2,886 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-09 The formal HR organization chart shows team A reporting under Business Unit 1, but daily feature delivery requires team A to work directly inside Business Unit 2's pipeline. Which structure should guide team boundary redesign? | pass→pass | 11,595 | 12,352 | +7% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,558 | 2,843 | +82% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-10 We have an ongoing core product initiative and want to grow a single core team to 35 engineers so everyone sits in the same daily standup and shares full context. How should team scaling be evaluated? | pass→pass | 15,934 | 16,646 | +4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,338 | 3,576 | +53% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-11 Project Titan is completing its final milestone next month. Management plans to dissolve the 8-person team and reassign everyone to new project teams across the company. What is the recommended team lifecycle approach? | fail→pass | 9,039 | 13,613 | +51% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,445 | 2,936 | +103% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-12 The platform team developed a database provisioning service. Stream-aligned teams want to consume it without scheduled joint meetings or shared sprints. Which interaction mode fits this scenario? | pass→pass | 4,279 | 6,009 | +40% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 689 | 1,750 | +154% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-13 A specialized observability team wants to help stream-aligned teams adopt distributed tracing by upskilling them through structured pairing over two weeks without taking over maintenance. What interaction mode is this? | pass→pass | 4,483 | 6,508 | +45% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 761 | 2,017 | +165% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-14 An enterprise wants to restructure its 50-person product development org because feature releases are lagging. What questions must be asked before drawing any new team boundaries? | fail→pass | 15,034 | 12,637 | -16% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,468 | 2,943 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-15 Engineers report context switching 10 times a day, constant meeting interruptions, and being multi-tasked across 4 distinct domains without deep mastery in any. What organizational issue does this indicate? | pass→pass | 10,752 | 13,868 | +29% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,648 | 3,060 | +86% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-16 When reducing team duties to optimize performance, should all non-feature delivery learning and experimentation time be eliminated to maximize throughput? | pass→pass | 12,257 | 12,006 | -2% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,945 | 2,774 | +43% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-17 Our enterprise is planning a massive central 'Data Middle-Office' initiative. What primary metric determines whether this platform succeeds under modern team topology principles? | pass→pass | 13,113 | 13,144 | +0% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,041 | 2,955 | +45% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-18 A VP wants to create a new dedicated governance committee layer solely to retain reporting lines and territorial authority during a reorg. How should this proposal be evaluated? | pass→pass | 13,702 | 14,675 | +7% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,121 | 3,124 | +47% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-19 Is high-frequency, continuous cross-team communication during routine execution phase considered an ideal goal for high-performing engineering organizations? | pass→pass | 11,765 | 11,192 | -5% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,966 | 2,661 | +35% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-20 Our engineering department has a 6-person team maintaining a standard user profile REST API that performs standard database CRUD operations using standard web frameworks. Management is considering creating a dedicated Complicated-Subsystem Team specifically for this REST API. Should a Complicated-Subsystem Team be created for this component? | pass→pass | 12,904 | 13,110 | +2% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,170 | 2,972 | +37% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-21 Our entire startup has only 5 software engineers working on a single web product. The founder proposes splitting off 2 engineers to build a dedicated Platform Team to build a custom internal developer platform from scratch. How should this proposal be evaluated? | pass→pass | 14,735 | 11,697 | -21% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,338 | 2,808 | +20% | 0 | 0 | — |
▸case-22 An organization plans to assign an Enabling Team to permanently handle production support tickets and on-call bug fixes for three stream-aligned feature teams. How should this operational assignment be evaluated? | pass→pass | 13,903 | 14,451 | +4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,115 | 3,214 | +52% | 0 | 0 | — |