Foundation Workshop - Techniques for finding boundaries for fast flow - P831
The Team Topologies book introduces ideas, patterns, and principles that provide a language for organization design and a compelling argument for adopting them, but what does that look like in practice? What techniques can we use to help us identify and validate team and service boundaries when we experience blockers to flow and triggers for evolution? This workshop provides the answers to these questions.
Workshop Outcomes
This foundation workshop introduces participants to the visual collaboration techniques introduced by Team Topologies to help organizations find boundaries for a faster flow of change. The techniques include User Needs Mapping (UNM), Independent Service Heuristics (ISH), and Team Interaction Modeling (TIM). It covers the following areas:
Listening for triggers for evolution through in-flow checks and hand-offs
Identifying and validating effective team boundaries for fast flow
How to use User Needs Mapping (UNM) to identify potential team and service boundaries
How to use Independent Service Heuristics (ISH) to explore and validate team and service boundaries
Aligning team structures with organizational goals and value streams
How to use Team Interaction Modeling (TIM) to capture current and future organizational state
Workshop Format
The workshop is run across two separate 3-hour sessions:
Session 1 - Understanding triggers for evolution, finding boundaries with User Needs Mapping (UNM), finding and validating boundaries with Independent Service Heuristics (ISH), and capturing and describing organization evolution with Team Interaction Modeling (TIM)
Session 2 - Practical application of identifying triggers for evolution, UNM, ISH, and TIM to identify and validate team boundaries for fast flow in the context of your organization
We recommend that these sessions are run on either the same day (morning and afternoon) or on consecutive days. This helps to keep the material and ideas "front of mind" for attendees while allowing some space for reflection (and normal work activities).
The workshops are facilitated by authorized Team Topologies Valued Practitioners (TTVPs).
A holistic approach to organizational design
This workshop is designed to educate practitioners, leaders, managers, and other staff members about the visual collaboration techniques introduced by Team Topologies. Through hands-on exercises, participants will gain a broader understanding of how these techniques can be combined to improve organizational design, resulting in better team interactions, increased autonomy, and faster value delivery.
Screenshot of the P831 workshop Miro board
Who should attend the workshop?
This workshop is specifically designed for leaders, managers, change agents, and practitioners within your organization who need a good working understanding of how and when to respond to triggers for evolution and to be able to effectively explore, capture, and describe possible options for team evolution. The workshop is also suitable for anyone leading organizational change based on these principles and techniques.
How should you prepare for the workshop?
We recommend that attendees: