Manuel Pais
Business Agility with
Team Topologies
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Team Topologies co-author
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Team Topologies
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Organizing business and
technology teams for fast flow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
IT Revolution Press, 2019
teamtopologies.com/book
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“innovative tools and concepts for
structuring the next generation
digital operating model”
Charles T. Betz,
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
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Remote Team Interactions
Workbook
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Using Team Topologies
Patterns for Remote Working
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
IT Revolution Press, 2022
Available to pre-order now
teamtopologies.com/workbook
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academy.teamtopologies.com
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Use code openagileBA for 15% discount
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What is business agility?
Why Team Topologies?
Show me the money!
What else matters?
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What is business agility?
Why Team Topologies?
Show me the money!
What else matters?
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What is
business agility?
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Business Agility: the ability
to respond rapidly* to
changing internal and
external conditions (* in hours)
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Remote-first
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Speed of change:
technology, climate,
geopolitical
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Increased
global and local
competition
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Business Agility Needs (1)
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Need to optimize the
operating model
for a fast flow of value
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Business Agility Needs (2)
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Need to organize
around loosely coupled
value streams
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Business Agility Needs (3)
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Need teams to focus
on user needs and UX
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Business Agility Needs (4)
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Need to sense the
environment and
quickly course-correct
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What is business agility?
Why Team Topologies?
Show me the money!
What else matters?
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Why
Team
Topologies?
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Team Topologies
Fast flow, rapid feedback, team
interactions, org evolution, team
cognitive load, ...
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Rapid flow of change
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Rapid feedback from
running systems
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Handovers kill flow
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Flow of change
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What is business agility?
Why Team Topologies?
Show me the money!
What else matters?
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Show me
the money!
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How does Team Topologies
help with business agility?
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Business Agility Needs (1)
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Need to optimize the
operating model
for a fast flow of value
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Team Topologies
helps unblock teams
and clarify interactions
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Case Study
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High fragmentation of work and focus
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Jan
2019
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Identify boundaries - business domain
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m
id-2019
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Clarity from team types & interactions
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Feb
2020
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Business Agility Needs (2)
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Need to organize
around loosely coupled
value streams
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Team Topologies
encourages decoupling
of business concepts
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Case Study
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The Monolith
Site
Project G
Project H
Project I
Project J
BAU
Vendor API
Reseller API
Mobile App
Mobile Team
Customer API
Membership Management System
Single code
repository
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2019
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Re-defining Teams
SRE
Developer Experience
Membership Management Gateway (MMG)
Acquisition
Join Process
Landing Pages
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Gym
Team
Time Tables
Gyms
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Payments
Reconciliation
Join Payments
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Retentio
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Members Area
CRM
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Other
….
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Streams
Enabling
Mobile ??
Platform
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Business Agility Needs (3)
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Need teams to focus
on user needs and UX
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Team Topologies helps
focus on core mission with
cognitive load awareness
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Case Study
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Autonomous stream-aligned teams
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2015
...
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2020
Topologies & interaction modes
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Platform promotes technical excellence (SRE)
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Business Agility Needs (4)
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Need to sense the
environment and
quickly course-correct
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Team Topologies as a
sense-making approach to
gain situational awareness
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Case Study
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Iteration 1
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Stream-Aligned Team for each capability
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Iteration 2
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A transitional phase
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Iteration 3
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Visualising … and a Reverse Conway Manoeuvre
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“We were able to identify discrete
domain areas, growing and
re-aligning our existing teams to
match the desired architecture.“
Becky Pauley, Platform Engineer,
Wealth Wizards
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Continuously inspect and
evolve the organization in
(agile) small iterations,
stop large painful reorgs
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What is business agility?
Why Team Topologies?
Show me the money!
What else matters?
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What else
matters?
Image by Lori Clouse from Pixabay
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Which other approaches
help with business agility?
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