Building an Organizational Brain
Humans deal with complexity by interacting and learning with their environment. When working in groups, the same sort of principles apply. However, to learn effectively, the group must first learn how to learn as a group. Group learning is much more than practicing or training. It is a journey of creating, refining, and ultimately being able to apply a shared world model to solve new problems.
In this talk, we explore how organizational learning happens and dive into different challenges tech-driven organizations face when trying to become a learning organization.
We explore the enablers of this learning and provide several useful tips and heuristics for achieving organizational learning
Memoirs of an Architecture Modernization Facilitator
Do you ever stop to think about how you are modernizing your architecture? Are the right people involved? Are all aspects being modernized appropriately? Are the right things happening at the right time? How is it enabling your company’s goals?
In this talk, we share our adventures facilitating diverse organizations kickstarting and executing their architecture modernization journeys.
We will share many stories, about things that worked and things that were less successful. We will share patterns and anti-patterns we started compiling around facilitating sustainable architecture modernization, one that considers the business strategy, and the technical and organizational architectures.
About the speakers
Eduardo da Silva, Independent Consultant on sociotechnical systems, architecture, and leadership modernization
Eduardo da Silva is an independent consultant in sociotechnical systems, architecture, and leadership modernization. He also is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP). His work focuses on helping tech-enabled organizations find strategies, structures, and operating models to achieve and scale a sustainable fast flow of change. He takes a sociotechnical systems’ framing, considering org/people, technical, product (customer and environment), and business perspectives. He regularly speaks at events and writes about these topics at esilva.net
Since 2005 he has been an academic researcher, entrepreneur (founder of a startup), software engineer/architect, and consultant in multiple companies (from startups to scale-ups). From 2017 to 2022, he was a principal tech lead and sociotechnical architect for the largest online retailer in The Netherlands and Belgium (bol.com). He worked on various technical and organizational challenges to scale this 150+ team product-led organization.
Eduardo has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Twente, Netherlands. He is originally from Portugal but now lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Avraham Poupko, Avraham is the head of Product Security for Forescout. He learns and teaches about how people join to create software.
Nick Tune, Principal Consultant at Empathy Software, Author of Architecture Modernization
Nick works with product and technology leaders to map strategy, model domains, design architecture and build continuous delivery teams while helping to deliver successful business outcomes. He is the author of Architecture Modernization (Manning), and Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wrox).