July 2025

Team Topologies and Near Shore

Unlocking Agility and Innovation in a Distributed World

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, CIOs and CTOs face immense pressure to enhance efficiency, mitigate risk, and drive innovation amidst a persistent global IT talent shortage.

The synergy of “Team Topologies,” a framework for structuring teams for optimized flow, and “Nearshore” outsourcing, which provides access to skilled talent with time zone and cultural alignment, offers a powerful solution to build truly “super-powered teams” capable of navigating these complex challenges and securing significant competitive advantage.

In this month’s newsletter, we explore these ideas in more detail.

team-topology-team-of-teams

Team Topologies: Key Concepts

By Team Topologies

Team Topologies is an approach to designing team-of-teams organizations for fast flow of value.

The approach is based on years of research across many organizations from different industries, different sizes and different technological backgrounds. It addresses the most dreaded challenges in technology:

How to maintain or even accelerate speed of value creation while scaling the organization?
How to evolve an architecture along with the evolution of the organization and avoid that one becomes a blocker for the other and a blocker for the growth of the business?

The approach provides a pattern language and a thinking model, which allows you to identify the team-of-teams design most appropriate for the target architecture and fast flow of value.

Why-Nearshore-IT-Outsourcing-is-Ideal-for-Rapid-Scaling

Why Nearshore IT Outsourcing is Ideal for Rapid Scaling

By Vanguard X

In high-growth environments, speed and precision must coexist. Yet many companies make the mistake of chasing expansion without building a scalable structure. This often results in overextended teams, communication gaps, and inconsistent output.

The need to grow quickly does not require aggressive hiring or resource strain. It demands a smarter approach to capacity building. Nearshore IT outsourcing supports modern scaling efforts by combining technical strength with operational alignment.

Teams gain instant access to qualified talent, cultural compatibility, and seamless collaboration.

nearshore-industry-insights

Nearshore Industry Insights: Platforming the Near Shote IT Staffing Industry

By Lonnie McRorey

Traditional hiring models weren’t built for what you’re asking of them today: distributed engineering, AI-integrated workflows, microservice architectures, sprint-level agility, and multi-cloud orchestration. Yet somehow, most companies are still trying to scale tech teams using workflows last optimized during the Web 2.0 era.

Platforming the nearshore IT industry is more than a strategic advantage. It’s a necessary architectural shift in how talent is identified, qualified, activated, and retained.

Lessons-learned-from-GitLab-about-remote-work

Lessons Learned from GitLab About Remote Work

By Team Topologies

This is an insightful interview with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab, the world’s largest all-remote organization. Darren leads at the intersection of people, culture, operations, inclusivity, marketing, employer branding, and communication overall. He has spent his career shaping remote teams and charting remote transformations, and recently authored GitLab’s Remote Playbook, a set of tried and tested tactics for building remote fluency in any organization.

Team Topologies spoke to Darren about the opportunities and challenges presented by remote working for organizations building software-based systems and services.

MangoChango’s ability to deliver unquestionable value to its clients is highly dependent on keeping abreast of new technologies and trends. Our clients value this commitment to leading-edge thinking and expertise.

MangoChango’s engineers are experts in a wide variety of technologies, frameworks, tools, and languages, with an emphasis on continuous learning as new thinking, tools, and techniques come to market.

Check here for more information and to explore our technology assessment and maturity framework.