Organizing for Fast Flow: A Practitioner's View on Implementing Team Topologies

Leaning heavily on Team Topologies (a book by Mathew Skelton and Manual Pais), this workshop explores team structures to reduce friction and improve flow.

Team Topologies discussed four fundamental team types for building software teams (stream aligned, complicated subprocess, enabling, and platform) and the interactions models between them. In this workshop, we present the core concepts from Team Topologies, discuss ways of thinking about team organization to improve flow and agility in your engineering org, and create a space for an open discussion on implementation practices. Core to this workshop on Organizing for Fast Flow are concepts on team happiness, structure and architecture borrowed from Daniel Pink, Team Topologies, and Melvin Conway.

Workshop Outline:

1. Team Topologies - A Distilled Introduction 
2. Case Study - look into how one company organized their teams
3. Kata: Working in groups, create and discuss team structures to solve several organizational and architectural challenges 
4. Introducing these approaches in your org (and some common gotchas)