Can this skill help with microservices transitions?

Yes, it provides specific guidance for moving from a monolith to microservices by identifying logical boundaries and suggesting how to split teams to maintain service autonomy.

How does this skill support Domain-Driven Design (DDD)?

The skill helps identify Bounded Contexts within your domain and maps them directly to team ownership, ensuring clear boundaries and reducing the need for high-bandwidth synchronization between teams.

Does it integrate with other documentation tools?

The skill follows a documentation-first approach and is designed to work alongside the docs-management skill to maintain an updated record of architecture-team alignment.

What is the Inverse Conway Maneuver?

It is the strategic practice of designing an organization's team structure to mirror the desired software architecture, ensuring that communication patterns facilitate the intended technical design rather than hindering it.

Inverse Conway Architecture Designer

Name: Inverse Conway Architecture Designer
Author: melodic-software

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Collaboration Tools

Aligns organizational team structures with desired software architectures using the Inverse Conway Maneuver to optimize system delivery.

About

This skill enables Claude to facilitate the Inverse Conway Maneuver, a strategic approach where team structures are deliberately designed to mirror the target system architecture. It guides users through mapping Domain-Driven Design (DDD) bounded contexts to autonomous teams, identifying communication patterns, and planning transitions from legacy monolithic structures to modern, stream-aligned models. By integrating Team Topologies best practices, it ensures that organizational communication pathways support technical goals like independent deployability and reduced cognitive load.

Key Features

Architecture-team alignment analysis and auditing
Anti-pattern detection for team topologies and architectural silos
12 GitHub stars
Mapping DDD Bounded Contexts to team ownership models
Transition planning for organizational restructuring
Communication matrix generation to identify cross-team dependencies

Use Cases

Restructuring feature-based teams into stream-aligned product teams
Designing a new engineering organization to support a specific technical vision
Transitioning from a monolithic codebase to a microservices architecture

About

Key Features

Architecture-team alignment analysis and auditing
Anti-pattern detection for team topologies and architectural silos
12 GitHub stars
Mapping DDD Bounded Contexts to team ownership models
Transition planning for organizational restructuring
Communication matrix generation to identify cross-team dependencies

Use Cases

Restructuring feature-based teams into stream-aligned product teams
Designing a new engineering organization to support a specific technical vision
Transitioning from a monolithic codebase to a microservices architecture