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Newsletter ( JULY 2025): Why Agile Isn’t Enough (And What’s Really Slowing You Down) - Part 1

Many teams adopt Agile in the hope of moving faster. They introduce sprints and stand-ups, visualise the work, and improve discipline at the team level. The process brings rhythm, visibility, and a sense of progress, and yet, delivery is still slow. Work gets done, but the value takes too long to reach users. Dependencies multiply, coordination becomes a constant effort, and every step forward seems to rely on waiting for someone else. "We're doing Agile", but are we really being agile?

For many organisations, introducing Agile helps make the work more visible. Teams are more aligned in how they plan, estimate, and reflect. But visibility doesn’t equal flow, and progress on the board doesn’t always mean progress in the system. You can have well-run teams, but still struggle to deliver value end-to-end. At some point, you have to ask where the work is getting stuck, and why, what slows things down between teams, not just within them, and how are team structures within the organisation shaping the way value flows.

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Newsletter (MAY 2025): Leadership as an Enabling Team

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations face constant pressure to adapt and transform. Traditional hierarchical structures often prove inadequate in fostering agility and driving meaningful change. To address this challenge, leaders are increasingly exploring innovative approaches to team organization and collaboration. One such approach is leveraging the principles of Team Topologies, specifically the enabling team type and Facilitation mode.

Leadership teams do not see themselves as enabling team types. They often see the potential of enabling teams, but the default approach is to delegate the tasks to other teams, either by assembling new temporary enabling teams or asking a current team to behave as an enabling team to help other teams.

We have seen various types of enabling teams depending on the missing capability identified. Like agile coaches, SREs, testing specialists, you name it. Yet, we consider that leadership teams are in a unique position to behave as enabling teams to drive meaningful change in key strategic areas.

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Luke McManus joins Team Topologies As the APAC Region Lead to Meet Increasing Demand

We are happy to announce Luke McManus as the APAC Region Lead for Team Topologies, In this new role, Luke will be acting as a brand ambassador for the company. He will play the role of catalyst in the growing community of advocates, practitioners and transformation leaders. Luke will also act as the face of Team Topologies for solution, advanced and training partners, coordinating events and joint delivery of engagements.

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The key role of leadership in adaptive organizations

Key takeaways:

  • Most organizations never get the desired results from a reorganization

  • The 3-day offsite “reorg” is almost guaranteed to be a costly failure

  • A better approach is adaptive, continuous adjustment

  • Use open techniques from Team Topologies to shift and adapt the organization

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