How to fail at Team Topologies - lessons for fast flow success - Matthew Skelton

Keynote talk at DevOpsDays Oslo 2023

Join practitioners and leaders at DevOpsDays Oslo 2023 to hear the keynote talk by Matthew Skelton - Founder at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies.

Audience: C-level and Exec teams, organization design practitioners, managers, plus people involved in the design, delivery, and operation of business-critical software systems.

Talk description

The book Team Topologies points the way to profound changes for the operating model for organizations building and running software-enriched services. These changes take months or years, but many organizations have underestimated the effort, skills, and dedication needed to adopt a fast flow approach.

In this talk, Matthew Skelton - founder at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies - explores some of the pitfalls that organizations stumble into when trying to adopt the Team Topologies ideas, together with principles and effective techniques that work well when moving towards fast flow with Team Topologies:

●      Working backwards from required outcomes

●      Encouraging healthy and humane organization dynamics

●      Using group insights to find and reshape boundaries for flow

●      Investing in team and system architectures that work for flow

●      And using one or more dedicated Enabling teams to guide and catalyze the changes needed

Ultimately, becoming proficient with fast flow and Team Topologies means becoming good at small, continuous changes to the teams and organization.