Success Patterns for Fast Flow and Team Topologies

Elizabeth Ayer and Jonathan Strommen will be running our successful Masterclass 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.

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.

What you will learn

  • 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


Speaker

Jonathan Strommen

Product and organizational consultant

Jonathan Strommen is a product and organizational consultant specialized in highly-regulated industries across both US and international markets. With extensive experience in leadership roles spanning product management, development, and post-production customer support, Jonathan adopts a holistic approach to aligning value streams and optimizing focus for strategic outcomes. Drawing on his customer-centric perspective and consulting expertise, he guides organizations in challenging conventional assumptions to unlock innovative solutions that responsibly accelerate feedback loops and time to market.

With over 16 years in technology solutions and delivery within financial services, fraud prevention, and pharmacy technology sectors for private and public sector clients, Jonathan brings a wealth of experience to help organizations enhance their operational practices. Notably, he spearheaded large-scale organizational alignment and product rationalization initiatives, supporting technology modernization and platform refactoring efforts for projects exceeding $3 billion in revenue, involving over 200 teams and managing more than 8000 products.

Jonathan is an avid speaker and writer, addressing topics such as challenging the status quo, aligning work with strategy, and responsibly breaking constraints to optimize workflow. His consulting focus centers on guiding leadership teams through organizational alignment to value streams, product and portfolio rationalization, and implementing friction-right processes to ensure responsible and secure delivery within highly-regulated industries.

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Speaker

Elizabeth Ayer

Product and organizational consultant

Elizabeth is a product and organizational consultant who promotes a virtuous cycle of empowered teams, fast flow, and business agility. With her background in product and portfolio management, she takes a value-oriented, collaborative approach to designing more humane structures for teams to thrive.

From over 25 years of product development across technology, education, and government sectors, she has a wealth of experience that informs her facilitation, teaching, and consulting practices. Most recently, she has been working in the public sector, supporting technology program design in high-visibility, high-compliance environments.

Elizabeth speaks and writes on product management for fast flow and also broader concepts of knowledge work, system design, and inclusive practices. Her consulting focus is on facilitating teams of leaders through transitions of scale and integration.

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