Many organizations lack the core organizational practices to be able to respond flexibly to changing business contexts. Organizations are often “stiff” and inflexible, lacking awareness of what the organization can achieve, and shackled by rigid frameworks that prevent movement and suppleness.
The book Team Topologies points the way to profound changes for the operating model for organizations building and running software-enriched services. At the heart of Team Topologies is the principle of fast flow: multiple ongoing streams of changes to software-enriched services done safely and sustainably.
Team Topologies acts like yoga or pilates for the organization, providing core agility and situational awareness that helps the organization to become more nimble and adaptable, more realistic in terms of capabilities, and ultimately more ready to achieve great things.
Using the Team Topologies patterns, organizations can expect to see significant benefits, including:
Increased business agility – the ability to respond rapidly to changing internal and external conditions.
Increased clarity of purpose at all levels of the organization.
Shared language for navigating all kinds of knowledge-work.
A more harmonious relationship between technology and people.
Increased staff wellbeing and engagement (autonomy, mastery, purpose).
In this talk, Matthew Skelton – co-author of the book Team Topologies – explores some of the benefits of adopting Team Topologies (and fast flow generally) in terms of wider organizational and business goals, and how organizations can become more nimble by adopting the underlying “core agility” practices that Team Topologies provides.
Keynote speaker
Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, and Founder & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organizations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value.
Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organizational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organizations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.
A Chartered Engineer (CEng), Matthew brings together principles and practices from multiple disciplines for a holistic approach to digitally-enriched operating models. He combines his experience as a leader and software architect in multiple contexts (GOV.UK, ecommerce, financial services, telecoms, pharma, retail, robotics, etc.) with a strong interest in the human side of organizations for a compassionate and humanistic approach to organizational effectiveness.