Matthew Skelton - Conflux
Matthew Skelton - Conflux
In many organizations the way in which teams and individuals interact is hard to predict: it is difficult to separate the “signal” from the “noise”. This becomes particularly problematic if the organization is building systems of some kind, because Conway’s Law suggests that the organization is constrained to find only those solutions that mirror its internal communications paths. To address this, we need much clearer patterns for team interactions within the organization.
In this talk, we explore how to use the four fundamental team types and three team interaction modes from Team Topologies to detect and correct problems within organizations building systems. Awkwardness in team interactions become signals for us to detect and use to change the shape of the organization for strategic advantage.
Learning Outcomes
Understand some core ideas from the book Team Topologies
Understand the four fundamental team types and why these are useful and needed
Understand the three team interaction modes and why these help with organizational debugging
Understand how the combination of team types and team interaction modes helps to increase clarity of purpose within the organization
Audience
CTO/CIO, Head of X, HR people, Software/Systems Architects, managers, team leads, engineers
How this enables organisational sensing
This talks helps leaders, managers, and team members to "listen" to the signals inside the organization to better understand the health and performance of the organization and to detect misaligned responsibility boundaries between teams.
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