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Team Structure in OpenMetadata

OpenMetadata supports a hierarchical team structure with teamType that can be Organization, Business Unit, Division, Department, and Group (default team type). Organization serves as the foundation of the team hierarchy representing the entire company. The other team types under Organization are Business Units, Divisions, Departments, and Groups.

• Organization is the root team in the hierarchy. It cannot have a parent. It can have children of the type Business Unit, Division, Department, Group along with Users directly as children (who are without teams).

• BusinessUnit is the next level of the team in the hierarchy. It can have Business Unit, Division, Department, and Group as children. It can only have one parent either of the type Organization, or Business Unit.

• Division is the next level of the team in the hierarchy below Business Unit. It can have Division, Department, and Group as children. It can only have one parent of the type Organization, Business Unit, or Division.

• Department is the next level of the team in the hierarchy below Division. It can have Department and Group as children. It can have Organization, Business Unit, Division, or Department as parents. It can have multiple parents.

• Group is the last level of the team in the hierarchy. It can only have Users as children and not any other teams. It can have all the team types as parents. It can have multiple parents.

{% note noteType="Warning" %}

• Once created, the teamType for Group cannot be changed later.
• Only the Teams of the type Group can own data assets. {% /note noteType="Warning" %} {% /note %}

{% image src="/images/v1.7/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/teams.png" alt="team-structure" caption="Team Hierarchy in OpenMetadata" /%} {% image src="/images/v1.7/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/teams1.1.png" alt="team-structure" caption="Team Hierarchy in OpenMetadata" /%} {% image src="/images/v1.7/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/teams1.2.png" alt="team-structure" caption="Team Hierarchy in OpenMetadata" /%}

{%inlineCallout color="violet-70" bold="How to Add a Team" icon="MdArrowForward" href="/how-to-guides/admin-guide/teams-and-users/add-team"%} Creating a Team in OpenMetadata is easy for different team types. {%/inlineCallout%}