Real agility for empowered organizations using Team Topologies - what senior leaders need to know.
Stand out from the crowd by building and running a high-performing team-of-teams organization, which adapts to changes in your environment even without your direct involvement.
Join award-winning authors Matthew Skelton (co-author of Team Topologies) and Alex Stokes (author of Empowered Agile Transformation) for a day of insights, techniques, tips, expertise, and discussions around creating and sustaining high-performing organizations using proven ideas and patterns from Team Topologies and Empowered Agile Transformation.
Fast Flow Conf - Everything about Team Topologies
FastFlowConf focuses on the approach and methodologies described in Team Topologies, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais.
Our mission is to bring together practitioners, experts and enthusiastic beginners to share knowledge and ideas, as well as to grow the community.
#DL Summit 2024: Optimizing software team interactions with the Team Topologies approach
Join their keynote on November 13 for first-hand insights and a live walkthrough on how to create fast workflows — a one-off opportunity not to be missed.
Independent Value Streams with DDD - Latest Insights & Updates
Join this webinar to hear the latest insights directly from the authors of the Independent Value Streams with Domain-Driven Design course.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam - Collaborative software design for team cognitive load
Collaborative software design for team cognitive load
When navigating the complexities of software design and development, new ideas and future requests frequently cross software and team boundaries. The most effective approach to these design challenges is through collaborative modelling sessions, where teams are directly involved in crafting the software design. Yet, this approach leads us to a critical dilemma: What happens when new capabilities increase the cognitive load on a team, hindering their ability to deliver on both new and ongoing business needs? And how do we address situations where these new capabilities clash with our current architecture, leading to necessary changes that don’t fit our existing team structures? Our goal is always to create the best architecture for our business challenges, but this depends heavily on our teams’ delivery capabilities. This brings us to a fundamental question: If our teams face difficulties in implementing what is ideally the ‘best’ architecture, can we still consider it the most effective solution?
Join us in this interactive, hands-on session, where you will delve into a real-world software design challenge that intersects both software and team boundaries. Equipped with detailed context and comprehensive software diagrams, you will design in groups two potential software designs. You are free to approach the challenge in any way you prefer, and we will provide a message flow modelling template to help you quickly start addressing your challenge. From those initial two designs, we will introduce you to the fundamental principles of Team Topologies, focusing on how cognitive load affects the teams involved and your software design. This understanding of cognitive load will be crucial as we further explore more solutions to the design challenge. Throughout this session, you will gain practical insights into how cognitive load influences your approach to software design. You will learn how to effectively incorporate Team Topologies into your design decisions. By the end of this experience, you will have hands-on software design experience, tackling complex design challenges with a team-first approach.
Speakers
Kenny Baas-Schwegler I believe in collaborative software design where ‘every voice shapes the software’. Leveraging a domain-driven design approach, I facilitate clearer communication between
Sjoerd Westerhof I love solving challenges by designing and building solutions that create real value. Sometimes I wonder, why engineering is disconnected from business needs, and then I try to build up the bridges ...
PlatformCon 2024 - Manuel Pais on From Fragile to Antifragile Internal Platforms
Manuel Pais on "From Fragile to Antifragile Internal Platforms"
Manuel Pais will be delivering a keynote at this year’s edition of PlatformCon.
Don’t miss the the latest on platform-as-a-product, platform grouping of teams and acceleration of flow through proper design of platforms and the team interactions behind them.
Internal platforms are understood as a necessity in most organizations today. But they're often fragile and susceptible to economic downturns, changes in funding models, or changes in leadership focus.
Internal platforms are generally understood as a necessity in most organizations today. However, results are often underwhelming, and the investment becomes hard to measure or justify. This makes internal platforms fragile and susceptible to economic downturns, changes in funding models, or leadership focus.
So, what is needed to make internal platforms antifragile?
“Antifragility is a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures.”
Of course, the platform as a product approach is critical to help focus and prioritize (internal) customer needs. Continuously understanding the platform audience, building trust, and reducing blind spots are required to thrive.
However, sustainable platforms need to be able to withstand financial shocks as well. We need to deal with the reality that (end customer) products (usually) have clear revenue and unclear costs, while internal platforms (usually) have clear costs and unclear revenue. How do we avoid naïve/biased approaches to demonstrate platform value that overlooks the costs? How do we show the value perceived by decision-makers who might be sitting two or three degrees away in the organization?
Antifragile internal platforms grow on trust and 360º transparency to survive the inevitable stressors, failures, and misunderstandings. Chances are that mandates, blind standardization, and fuzzy “productivity” goals, among other issues, are eroding the trust foundations needed for platform sustainability in your organization.
Moving beyond cross functional teams to Team Topologies to enable flow
In this first meet ups relating to Organisation Design, we are going to explore one of the models that has gained much traction in building teams to enable fast flow – Team Topologies.
Accelerating value with transparent flow-based organizations
In this webinar, we'll delve into the continuing evolution of the Team Topologies approach, the renewed focus on designing work with the fast flow of customer value at the core, and how it works alongside Thoughtworks' tools like the Simplified Operating Model and value-driven portfolio management. Drawing on data from fieldwork in Australia and additional research, we'll also discuss upcoming trends for leaders addressing scaled organizational challenges.
Five years of Team Topologies: Reflections and predictions for the future
Did you know it’s been five years since the publication of Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton? Join co-author Manuel Pais, Nicki Watt (CEO/CTO at OpenCredo), Paul Ingles (Uswitch), and Torill Iversen (NAV) and learn how this book built the foundation for the platform engineering revolution.
During this roundtable event, you'll discover👇
🔸How Team Topologies impacted the platform engineering movement
🔸Success Stories
🔸What we’ve learned since 2019, and what the future holds
Don't miss it!
Playing Tetris with Cognitive Load (English)
Do we expect autonomous empowered cross-functional squads to set up their CI/CD tooling and pipelines, automate infra, test and secure *all the things*, and, of course, run and monitor their product live? Oh wait, there’s more: they need to actually understand who their customers are, what they need from the product, what is causing friction, and what is the viability of our product as a net positive for the organization. Sounds familiar? Congratulations, you’re already playing Tetris with team cognitive load!
How to Structure Your Platform Team with Manuel Pais and Laura Tacho
Listen to Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies, in a conversation with Laura Tacho, CTO at DX. They’ll be answering a common question from LinkedIn and previous events: “who should own developer experience within an organization?" Laura and Manuel will answer this question in a few contexts, depending on the size and stage of the organization. They’ll discuss platform engineering teams, when and why those teams are necessary, and how these types of teams can most effectively contribute to developer experience. Live attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the conversation and ask questions throughout the event.
Listen to the conversation to learn:
Organizational design best practices and anti-patterns
Platform teams and developer experience teams - are they different?
Team charters and missions
Replay of this event
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/events/7182072254845861889/
Success patterns for adaptive organizations - webinar
Success Patterns for Adaptive Organizations
Join the authors of two of the most influential books on creating adaptive organizations, EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation and Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, for a discussion on the success patterns they've recognized while consulting with organizations investing in building business agility.
Team Topologies in Action - Global Enterprise Agility Month Teams Week
In this session, Matthew will talk about the principles behind Team Topologies before Paul Ingles (CTO, uSwitch.com), John Kilmister (Software Architect, PureGym), Richard Allen (Team Topologies Advocate) and Ivan Krnic (Directior of Engineering, CROZ) will describe how they applied insights from the book to help them achieve their goals.Live Q&A to finish.
Business and Technical Agility with Team Topologies - QCon Plus
In this talk, we’ll explore how the patterns and principles from Team Topologies promote true business and technical agility through a rapid flow of software change, fast feedback from running systems, a strong drive for loose coupling, and awareness of sociotechnical mirroring. Combined with a product mindset and techniques from Domain-driven Design, the Team Topologies approach is helping organizations around the world to adapt to the “new normal” and achieve true business and technical agility.
WTF is Platform as a Product? 2nd edition
Join co-author of Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton, and CTO of Container Solutions, Jamie Dobson, for a no-nonsense discussion of internal platforms and why treating your platform as a product is A Good Thing.
Online Training - DDD for Team Topologies | TT21 | 20-21 April 2021
DDD for Team Topologies
This training course combines principles and practices from Domain-driven Design (DDD) with principles and practices from Team Topologies to help you design an organization for fast flow with teams aligned to domain boundaries.
SOLD OUT - Online Training - DDD for Team Topologies | TT21 | 10-11 November 2020
DDD for Team Topologies
This training course combines principles and practices from Domain-driven Design (DDD) with principles and practices from Team Topologies to help you design an organization for fast flow with teams aligned to domain boundaries.
CANCELLED - Online Training - Team Topologies | Essentials | 7, 8, 14, 15 October 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" this training provides a comprehensive understanding of key ideas and practices for modern organization dynamics.
Online Training - Principles and Practices for Modern Platforms | TT08 | 03 July 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on principles and practices for modern platforms.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this training is a deep dive into modern platforms and the teams working on them.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Principles and Practices for Modern Platforms | TT08 | 02 July 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on principles and practices for modern platforms.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this training is a deep dive into modern platforms and the teams working on them.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Team Boundaries and Architecture for Fast Flow | TT07 | 26 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on team boundaries and architecture for fast flow.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" this training explores how to break apart different kinds of monoliths with adequate “fracture planes”.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Team Boundaries and Architecture for Fast Flow | TT07 | 25 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on team boundaries and architecture for fast flow.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" this training explores how to break apart different kinds of monoliths with adequate “fracture planes”.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Evolving Responsive Organizations | TT06 | 19 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on evolving responsive organizations.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this training focuses on how to become an organization that can respond quickly to market needs and technological progress by evolving its organizational landscape organically, rather than via large and often painful re-organizations.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Reducing Cognitive Load with Supporting Topologies | TT05 | 12 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half day ONLINE training focused on reducing cognitive load with supporting topologies.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this live online training introduces attendees to three supporting team topologies whose purpose is to reduce the cognitive load that often cripples software delivery teams. Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem are all the supporting topologies needed to allow fast flow of delivery by Stream-aligned teams.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Reducing Cognitive Load with Supporting Topologies | TT05 | 11 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half day ONLINE training focused on reducing cognitive load with supporting topologies.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this live online training introduces attendees to three supporting team topologies whose purpose is to reduce the cognitive load that often cripples software delivery teams. Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem are all the supporting topologies needed to allow fast flow of delivery by Stream-aligned teams.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Principles & Practices for Stream-Aligned Teams | TT04 | 05 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half day ONLINE training focused on organisation dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on autonomous teams aligned to business value streams.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this live online training explains important principles and practices for true autonomous teams aligned to business value streams.
We look at the constraints imposed by Conway’s Law and how we can turn these into a strategic advantage, the importance of team-sized software and responsibilities, what happens when we take a team-first approach to organization design, what are the trust boundaries across an organization and how they influence behaviors with Dunbar’s numbers, how to reduce inter-team communication overhead with techniques like Team APIs, virtual spaces that promote purposeful team interactions, and more.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Principles & Practices for Stream-Aligned Teams | TT04 | 04 June 2020
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half day ONLINE training focused on organisation dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on autonomous teams aligned to business value streams.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this live online training explains important principles and practices for true autonomous teams aligned to business value streams.
We look at the constraints imposed by Conway’s Law and how we can turn these into a strategic advantage, the importance of team-sized software and responsibilities, what happens when we take a team-first approach to organization design, what are the trust boundaries across an organization and how they influence behaviors with Dunbar’s numbers, how to reduce inter-team communication overhead with techniques like Team APIs, virtual spaces that promote purposeful team interactions, and more.
Book now with a 20% discount on all June and July training courses!
Online Training - Principles and Practices for Modern Platforms | TT08 | 29 May 2020
SOLD OUT
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on principles and practices for modern platforms.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this training is a deep dive into modern platforms and the teams working on them.
Online Training - Team Boundaries and Architecture for Fast Flow | TT07 | 22 May 2020
SOLD OUT
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on team boundaries and architecture for fast flow.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" this training explores how to break apart different kinds of monoliths with adequate “fracture planes”.
Online Training - Evolving Responsive Organizations | TT06 | 15 May 2020
SOLD OUT
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half-day ONLINE training focused on organization dynamics for effective software delivery, with a focus on evolving responsive organizations.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this training focuses on how to become an organization that can respond quickly to market needs and technological progress by evolving its organizational landscape organically, rather than via large and often painful re-organizations.
Virtual Meetup - DDD-Lite: Independent Service Heuristics with Matthew Skelton
Join Matthew Skelton for a talk at the Domain-Driven Design London meetup group on Tuesday, May 12th.
DDD-Lite: Independent Service Heuristics
When designing organizations for fast flow of change, we need to find effective boundaries between different streams of change. Techniques like Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are very powerful for this but can be quite involved and difficult to learn. A lightweight intermediate approach is to ask "could this thing be run as a cloud-hosted (SaaS) service or product?".
This session explores the Independent Service Heuristics, a kind of “DDD-Lite” approach based on some ideas in the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. The Independent Service Heuristics help teams to find candidate services and domains for running as a separate value stream or separate service.
Online Training - Reducing Cognitive Load with Supporting Topologies | TT05 | 08 May 2020
SOLD OUT
Join forward-thinking leaders and technologists for a half day ONLINE training focused on reducing cognitive load with supporting topologies.
Based on the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, this live online training introduces attendees to three supporting team topologies whose purpose is to reduce the cognitive load that often cripples software delivery teams. Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem are all the supporting topologies needed to allow fast flow of delivery by Stream-aligned teams.
Remote-First Team Interactions with Team Topologies | FREE WEBINAR | Apr 29
Join Manuel and Matthew for a free webinar focused on remote-first team interactions.
Based on ideas from the book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, in this session you will see some useful approaches to clarify and evolve inter-team interactions and communication in this remote-first world.