2 Days: Team Topologies Masterclass
(Monday Sep 30 - Tuesday Oct 1; 09:00 –17:00 Room Nordea, D015)
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow", this masterclass guides attendees through many different aspects of modern organization design for software delivery.
Key aspects covered in this masterclass include:
what are the constraints on software architecture and quality imposed by Conway’s Law and how we can turn these into a strategic advantage
what are the implications and benefits of taking a team-first approach to organization design, rather than a piecemeal approach driven by the latest hype
what are the expected capabilities in a cross-functional product or service team to allow for end-to-end ownership and how to balance that with max team size
how to choose team topologies to accelerate and sustain safe, high-speed software delivery: stream-aligned, enabling, platform and complex subsystem
how to simplify and enhance communication patterns between teams, clarifying each team’s purposes, responsibilities and expected behaviors
how to continuously evolve team structures and interactions depending on internal and external stimuli (such as tech adoption or customer feedback)
Keynote - From Strategy to Practice: Insights on How Team Topologies Drive Organizational Success
(Wednesday Oct 2; 17:30 –18:30 Room 1)
Manuel Pais, Co-author of Team Topologies, outstanding expert in organizing business and tech teams for a fast workflow
Since the book Team Topologies was published 5 years ago, organizations around the world strategically adopted Team Topologies principles and patterns like stream-aligned teams, platform as a product, well-defined team interactions, and team cognitive load as key drivers for a fast(er) flow of value to customers and the organization.
It might be fair to say that most people in our industry are at least aware of the 4 team types and the 3 team interaction modes described in the book by now (but we’ll test it during the talk anyhow!). However, those patterns are easy to misunderstand unless we’ve understood the principles behind them.
Therefore, we will look at several Team Topologies industry examples – from successful digital-first 21st century companies to large corporations to, perhaps surprisingly, governmental agencies – and “reverse engineer” the underlying principles at play in each case such as: decoupling of responsibilities, “eventual consistency”, rapid feedback loops, “dependency inversion”, and minimizing complexity.
Except we won’t be talking about code or software systems but rather teams and organizational systems!