INTRODUCING FLOW IN BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS
Move towards becoming more flow-oriented
Bureaucratic organizations experience significant blockers to flow, resulting in long wait times and poor flow efficiency. This could be due to a number of reasons:
Your organization could be arranged in functional silos such as PMO, UX, Dev, Compliance, Ops, and QA, resulting in many handovers between teams.
Your software systems could have grown over time and resulted in being too big for the teams that own them, resulting in increased cognitive load and context switching.
Your value streams could be unclear, resulting in work centrally managed and coordinated across multiple teams requiring a significant coordination overhead.
Your teams could be being pulled in multiple directions due to having multiple stakeholders and unclear priorities, which results in the teams being left unable to be driven by key intrinsic motivators such as autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
If any of these resonate with you, you may find that your organization may be pushing against Conway's law, meaning that the organization's social (people) side is not aligned with the technical side.
In these situations, the Team Topologies approach can help significantly.
How Team Topologies can help
Team Topologies is the leading approach to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, providing a practical, step-by‑step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction.
Led by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of the highly‑acclaimed book Team Topologies (IT Revolution, 2019), the Team Topologies ecosystem of partners, practitioners, and learning Academy is transforming the approach to the digital operating model for organizations around the world.
We work with our customers to achieve lasting change towards flow-oriented organizations. Using a combination of session types and expertise, we co-create with you the best-fit journey to deliver impact sooner. We do this by practicing the Enabling team pattern and helping you to embed and encourage awareness of flow-centric techniques in your team-of-teams organization.
Our growing partner network can help to provide learning in your time zone and local language.