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We’re delighted to announce a strategic partnership between Kosli and TeamTopologies - a collaboration that brings together SDLC Governance automation with the world’s leading framework for organizing business and technology for fast flow of value.
This partnership is the formalization of 10 years of collaboration between Mike Long and Matthew Skelton, working on various initiatives to promote the delivery of business value through innovative approaches to optimizing how we organize teams and technology.
We’re super excited to have Matt and the rest of the Team Topologies folks with us on our journey. Here’s what to expect.
The Strategic Governance Challenge in Regulated Industry
As regular readers will know, large organizations operating under regulatory requirements face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they need to deliver software quickly to remain competitive and serve customers effectively. On the other hand, they must maintain rigorous governance, compliance, and security standards - requirements that traditionally slow everything down.
Existing governance processes represent a strategic challenge for the enterprise. Manual governance work - spreadsheets tracking deployments, tickets documenting changes, auditors requesting evidence months after the fact - are trivial, day to day problems.
But, at scale, they harm competitiveness, slow innovation, create huge governance costs, and put the business at risk. In short, solving governance requires technical and cultural transformation - and that’s where this partnership comes in.
Complementary Approaches to the Governance Problem
Team Topologies, as the organizational foundation for rapid, effective value delivery at scale, gives us the tools to address the governance challenge from the organizational side. By structuring teams around business domains, minimizing dependencies, and managing cognitive load, Team Topologies enables fast flow of change through the organization.
Kosli addresses the challenge from the technical side. By automating evidence collection across the entire software delivery lifecycle, Kosli removes the friction that compliance creates - ensuring full auditability without the manual overhead that bogs teams down.
Together, these approaches produce a powerful combination
Organizational clarity meets technical automation. Team Topologies gives you the right team structures and interaction modes. Kosli ensures those teams can operate at full speed without governance becoming a bottleneck.
Cognitive load reduction at every level. Team Topologies reduces organizational cognitive load by clarifying responsibilities and minimizing coordination overhead. Kosli reduces technical cognitive load by eliminating manual compliance work.
Fast flow with full auditability. Team Topologies patterns like stream-aligned teams and platform-as-a-product enable continuous delivery. Kosli provides the automated governance layer that makes continuous delivery possible in regulated environments.
What This Partnership Means For Our Customers
Our partnership will deliver several concrete benefits to enterprise organizations:
Joint thought leadership on implementing both organizational and technical patterns that enable compliant fast flow in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, automotive, and aerospace.
Co-developed resources helping executives and other transformation leaders understand how to combine organizational design with governance automation for maximum impact.
Coordinated guidance on real-world implementation - how to structure your teams using Team Topologies patterns while instrumenting your software delivery pipeline with Kosli’s automated governance.
A Shared Vision for the Future
Both Kosli and Team Topologies share a fundamental belief: that delivering software shouldn’t require choosing between speed and compliance, between innovation and control, between developer experience and auditability.
With the right organizational structures and the right technical automation, regulated enterprises can achieve all of these goals simultaneously.
This partnership formalizes our commitment to helping organizations do exactly that - and it’s built on a foundation of trust, shared values, and a decade of collaboration between our founders.
