Masterclass - Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies

Masterclass
Written By ConfluxHQ Admin

Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization through deep insights into the key ideas and techniques that work well “on the ground”. Put into practice the ideas and techniques through guided exercises and discussions.

Price: 18000 GBP

 

Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies

1 day workshop

Product code: P659a

 

Product details:

  • Product name: Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies

  • Product code: P659a

  • Product type: Masterclass

  • Format: in-person or online session

  • Schedule: 4x 90-minute segments 

  • Suggested attendees: leaders, managers, change agents, members of Enabling teams, Agile Coaches, architects, senior engineers, UX/UI and product managers

  • Number of attendees: up to 25 people (in-person) or 20 people (online)

Price: 18000 GBP

All sessions from Conflux are co-designed with Matthew Skelton, co-author of the book Team Topologies.

What the Masterclass is about

Curated by Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies and Founder at Conflux, this Masterclass brings together practical experience from real-world customer engagements around the world to distill the key success patterns for adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies.  

Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization (or within your customers’ organizations) through deep insights into the key ideas and techniques that work well “on the ground”. Put into practice the ideas and techniques through guided exercises and discussions.

Based on the direct experience of Conflux practitioners since 2017, this Masterclass condenses hours of consulting and implementation experience into a single workshop. 

Who the Masterclass is for 

This Masterclass is for leaders, managers, change agents, members of Enabling teams, Agile Coaches, architects, senior engineers, UX/UI and product managers, or any other decision-makers involved in building and running software services.

The Masterclass is aimed at organizations looking to use fast flow as a driver to gain a competitive advantage and/or improved outcomes for users and customers. We recommend that attendees read the book Team Topologies before attending in order to get the best out of the Masterclass.  

What benefits to expect

  • Deep insights into fast flow and Team Topologies.

  • Hands-on experience of tools and techniques, guided by a Conflux practitioner.

  • Confidence in explaining the nuances of fast flow and Team Topologies.

  • Use the Team Topologies modeling shapes to explore organization dynamics.

  • Gain advanced awareness of platform dynamics for fast flow.

  • Begin to facilitate an Independent Service Heuristics session within your organization.

  • Map some fast flow skills pathways for your organization.

Problems that this Masterclass solves

The principles of fast flow underlying the ideas in Team Topologies are unfamiliar to people in many organizations. Decades of treating IT like a cost center have left execs and management with incomplete awareness of the benefits of parallel exploration, autonomous teams, ubiquitous APIs, and ongoing exploration of team and system boundaries. 

This Masterclass provides practical techniques that help to demonstrate and embed fast flow approaches within an organization, thereby accelerating the adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies. Attendees will be better able to explain and demonstrate tools and techniques from Team Topologies and place these in context for meaningful organizational change. 

Schedule: what is covered and when

The workshop takes place over four 90-minute segments, making it easy to schedule in a single day (in-person) or in busy calendars across multiple time zones (online). The in-person version is run in a single day; the online version can be run in the same day or spread across two days.

  • Part 1: The importance of the evolution of team interactions and team boundaries:

    • We begin by revisiting Chapters 7 and 8 of the Team Topologies (TT) book and the implications of the team interaction modes, how the Team API can help cross-team communication, and the importance of organizational sensing. 

    • We then use the open-access TT team modeling shapes to become familiar with thinking in terms of the evolution of teams and interactions, not simply a target design. 

    • We finish Part 1 by a group critique of some team interaction diagrams based on different industry contexts to help embed the learning.

  • Part 2: Success with platforms and platform thinking for fast flow:

    • We begin by reviewing the purpose of a platform from a TT perspective and establish some useful metrics and attitudes for platform success.

    • We take a deep dive into the implications of “fractal” (self-similar, nested) platforms as defined by TT.

    • We then explore some advanced patterns for platforms around multiple parallel product/service offerings, sharing or “harvesting” proven solutions, horizon scanning using Core Domain Charts, data consumption (touching on techniques like Data Mesh) and product composition.

    • We finish Part 2 by looking at an emerging approach that we call Desynchronous that helps organizations to scale without the slow-downs associated with large internal platforms of the past.

  • Part 3: Finding good boundaries for flow using Independent Service Heuristics: 

    • We begin by reviewing the fracture planes for fast flow from Chapter 6 of TT and the pros and cons of different fracture planes in a fast flow context. 

    • We then take a deep dive into the use of Independent Service Heuristics (ISH) as a technique for finding good boundaries for fast flow.

    • We finish Part 3 by exploring how to use ISH and how to facilitate discovery sessions using ISH and related techniques.

  • Part 4: Skills paths and aptitudes for fast flow + wrap-up:

    • We begin by exploring the skills pathways needed for typical roles in IT and software delivery when embarking on a fast flow transition.

    • We then discuss challenges and opportunities around skills gaps and aptitudes and how we can use market sensing techniques to help avoid skills stagnation.

    • We finish Part 4 by reviewing the success patterns covered throughout the Masterclass and answering any remaining questions.

Prerequisites and equipment needed

Equipment needed

Attendees will need to bring a laptop with a fast network connection and a modern web browser installed (Chrome, Firefox, or Safari preferred). Before the Masterclass you should visit https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lNhS2MY=/ to test that your laptop and browser work well with Miro, the digital whiteboard tool used in both the in-person and online versions of the Masterclass. 

You should see a screen similar to this when you visit the test URL above:

Prerequisites

Attendees will get the most benefit from the workshop by completing the prerequisite activities. The ‘Essential’ activities will only take around 20 minutes to complete. The ‘Recommended’ activities may take 40 minutes to complete in total but will enable a deeper, more valuable learning experience. 

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How to buy

Price: 18000 GBP (and applicable taxes).

We also offer this Masterclass for conferences; we recommend a per-attendee price of at least 850 GBP (or equivalent). Contact us to discuss rates and options for conferences. 

We have flexible contract and payment terms. Contact our Sales team at sales@confluxhq.com to begin the purchase process, quoting code “P659a”.

FAQs

  1. Who should attend the workshop?

    • Leaders, managers, change agents, members of Enabling teams, Agile Coaches, architects, senior engineers, UX/UI and product managers, or any other decision-makers involved in building and running software services.

  2. How is the session delivered?

    • The session is delivered either in-person or online using video call (Google Meet, Zoom, or MS Teams). In either case, we use Miro as a collaborative digital whiteboard. 

  3. How do I buy this session?

    • Contact sales@confluxhq.com and mention the “P659a Masterclass - success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies”.

  4. How does the Conflux engagement model work?

    • Conflux live sessions can work in two different ways: as an introductory session or as a more extended and in-depth exploration of the techniques over several weeks. Discover more in our Engagement model. 

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