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Team Topologies vs NoBullshit Tech-Lead
Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais’s Team Topologies offers a model for organizing tech teams around the flow of delivery. Here are its public facts, and where NoBullshit Tech-Lead sits next to it, in French.
Published by IT Revolution Press in 2019 (240 pages, in English), Team Topologies treats team organization as a design lever: four fundamental team types, three team interaction modes, and a team’s cognitive load as a criterion for drawing boundaries. A second edition (304 pages) came out from the same publisher in September 2025.
| Team Topologies | NoBullshit Tech-Lead | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais | François-Guillaume Ribreau |
| Language | English | French |
| Year | 2019 | 2026 |
| Pages | 240 | 240 |
| Publisher | IT Revolution Press | FGRibreau SARL |
Team Topologies — ISBN 978-1942788812. NoBullshit Tech-Lead — E-book (PDF, ePub, MOBI), from €49.
Where Team Topologies is a good fit
Team Topologies is most useful if you read in English and need to redesign an organization of several teams: who owns which scope, how teams work together, where a platform team belongs.
What sets NoBullshit Tech-Lead apart
NoBullshit Tech-Lead is written in French and starts from the Tech Lead’s day-to-day: keeping production healthy, trading off debt, hiring, aligning the team with product. Its 60 actionable principles run from developer to CTO and speak first to French small and mid-sized companies, where a single team often carries the whole product. E-book format, digital access, from €49.
Discover the bookFrequently asked questions
- Is Team Topologies available in French?
- Team Topologies is published in English by IT Revolution Press (1st edition 2019, 240 pages; 2nd edition 2025, 304 pages). For a French-language read, NoBullshit Tech-Lead offers 60 actionable principles, from developer to CTO.
- How does it differ from NoBullshit Tech-Lead?
- Team Topologies is about the structure of a multi-team organization (team types, interaction modes). NoBullshit Tech-Lead is in French and covers engineering, product, management and hiring across 60 principles, from the point of view of the person leading the team.
Methodology
Publisher data collected between 29 September and 8 October 2026 (date given for each source) from the publishers’ official pages and from Open Library, then archived on the Wayback Machine (links below). Scope: public bibliographic facts (author, publisher, year, page count, language). Prices vary by format and retailer, so they are given for reference only, as of the consultation date.
Sources
- Publisher page (2nd edition) — IT Revolution — 8 October 2026 · archive
- Open Library (1st edition, 2019) — 8 October 2026 · archive
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