Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cybernetics🤖 and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive load 🤯 while increasing user value 🎯. Listen to find out:
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(00:00) Intro (00:56) Welcome (02:11) Matthew Skelton's Personal Nerd Journey (06:44) System Thinking for Effective Humane Organisations (08:18) Team Cognitive Load (08:48) Team Interaction Modes (09:59) The Complexity and Chaos of Human Nature in Organisational Design (10:31) The Influence of Neuroscience on Team Topologies (13:52) How team topologies is influenced by cybernetics, neuroscience and systems (15:40) Getting Started with Team Topologies (16:45) Continuously Adapting (17:55) Then vs. Now: Structuring around Value Flows (22:24) Continuous Stewardship: Responsibility of Software Orgs (26:03) How to have everyone work together (26:45) Workshopping to find Value Flow (30:04) Value Flow: Work Backwards from User Needs, Wardley Maps and Existing Team Structure (33:49) Decoupling in Time and why you become less agile when you rely on PMs (38:30) Amazon's Secret to Scaling and Efficiency (39:58) 4 TEAM TYPES (40:23) Stream Aligned Team (42:54) Enabling Team (43:38) Complicated Subsystem Team (44:34) Platform - grouping of teams (45:34) 3 INTERACTION MODES (45:42) Collaboration (45:49) Facilitation (45:57) X-as-a-Service (46:08) How the Dynamic nature and adaptation to change is the Secret Sauce of Team Topologies (49:28) Ditch Hierarchy for Better Value Flow (54:26) Team Topologies as Pilates for Your Organization (1:01:05) Have the confidence to listen: To Yourself and Others
Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, and Founder & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organisations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value. Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organisational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organisations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.
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