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Supporting a Sustainable Fast
Flow of Change with Effective
Enabling Teams
Eduardo da Silva, PhD
(esilva.net | @emgsilva | [email protected])
FastFlowConf 2023, 2023-05-24
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Enabling Teams help
Stream-aligned Teams
upskill and address
capability gaps
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Leveraging Enabling Teams is
strategic for modern orgs to
achieve a more “sustainable Fast
Flow of Change”
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Sustainable Fast Flow of Change
↳quickly & sustainably respond to needs from our environment
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Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Journey Towards Effective Enabling Teams
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Journey Towards Effective Enabling Teams
Starting to practice
Enabling Teams
behaviors and
having first Enabling
Teams
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Journey Towards Effective Enabling Teams
Starting to practice
Enabling Teams
behaviors and
having first Enabling
Teams
Have several teams,
with clear mission
and continuously
measuring their
impact
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Journey Towards Effective Enabling Teams
Starting to practice
Enabling Teams
behaviors and
having first Enabling
Teams
Have several teams,
with clear mission
and continuously
measuring their
impact
Enabling teams are
first class-citizen
used to scale
strategic capabilities
and platforms
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Source: https://pers.bol.com/en/facts-figures | Figures are from March 2023
ℹ 150+
Teams
ℹ Teams
organized
around
“Products”
(multi-team
scopes)
ℹ Several
Platform
Groups
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Upscaling Data
Science capability in the
organization to cope with its
many scaling challenges.
Group of Data Leads and
Data Scientists applying
Enabling Teams behaviors,
as they help scale Data
Science in teams and org.
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Start small and
show value
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🧭 Start small & Show Value
● Focus on practicing
“Enabling Behaviors”
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🧭 Start small & Show Value
● Focus on practicing
“Enabling Behaviors”
● Avoid “analysis paralysis”,
focus on showing value
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🧭 Start small & Show Value
● Focus on practicing
“Enabling Behaviors”
● Avoid “analysis paralysis”,
focus on showing value
● Learn & understand what you
org needs
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Start small and
show value
Create conditions to involve
the right people
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🧭 Create conditions to involve the right people
● Pioneers and experts should
feel safe to do Enabling
work
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🧭 Create conditions to involve the right people
● Pioneers and experts should
feel safe to do Enabling
work
● Value Enabling Work - do
not penalize experts from
doing that
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🧭 Create conditions to involve the right people
● Pioneers and experts should
feel safe to do Enabling
work
● Value Enabling Work - do
not penalize experts from
doing that
● Coach & incentivize
managers and leaders to
embrace Enabling work
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Start small and
show value
Create conditions to involve
the right people
Obstacles to kickstart
Enabling Teams
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🧭 Other obstacles to kickstart Enabling Teams
● No support from leaders and
managers
● Cut funding of Enabling
Teams because they are not
creating product features
● Too much Enabling work in
progress
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
Cloud adoption
(& migration from own
datacenter) to improve
overall scalability and
velocity (of teams and
systems). Several Enabling
Teams facilitating 150+
teams upskilling and
understanding their needs.
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
High impact,
hard to measure
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🧭 High impact, hard to measure
● Multiplying & propagating
effect
● Impact cannot be fully
measured
● Focus on measuring the
direct impact and
acknowledge high ROI
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
High impact, hard
to measure
Refine and pivot Enabling
Teams mission
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🧭 Refine and pivot Enabling Teams mission
● Must have a specific and
purposeful mission
● Set specific targets and
facilitating approach
● Continuously measure and
learn - pivot if needed
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Kickstarting
Measuring Impact
Scaling
High impact, hard
to measure
Refine and pivot Enabling
Teams mission
Relevant metrics for
Enabling Teams
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🧭 Relevant metrics for Enabling Teams
● When starting define
metrics around the mission
● Use Organization
Performance metrics to
identify priority for
Enabling Teams and Work
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Kickstarting Scaling
Measuring Impact
Adopting Enabling Teams
at scale, in particular to
scaling Data Science and
other key disciplines and
capabilities (such as
Architecture).
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Kickstarting Scaling
Measuring Impact
Leveraging short &
long-lived Enabling Teams
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🧭 Leveraging short & long-lived Enabling Teams
● Short-lived: most common;
exist with very specific
mission and focus; from few
weeks to months
● Long-lived structural:
longer-term sensing and
evolving skills and
capabilities for the org
● Most orgs needs both!
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Kickstarting Scaling
Leveraging short & long-lived
Enabling Teams
Enabling Teams co-evolving
internal platforms
Measuring Impact
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🧭 Enabling Teams co-evolving internal platforms
● Sense and validating needs
& capabilities for internal
platforms
● Reduce required cognitive
load of Platform Teams to
understand and prioritize
platform developments
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Kickstarting
Leveraging short & long-lived
Enabling Teams
Enabling Teams co-evolving
internal platforms
Measuring Impact
Scaling
High impact, hard
to measure
Refine and pivot Enabling
Teams mission
Relevant metrics for
Enabling Teams
Start small and
show value
Create conditions to involve
the right people
Obstacles to kickstart
Enabling Teams
Journey Towards
Effective
Enabling Teams
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Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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🧭Effective Enabling Teams are essential for orgs to
continuously learn & improve and to achieve a sustainable fast
flow of change
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Thank you!
Eduardo da Silva, PhD
Independent consultant & Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP)
# @emgsilva | esilva.net | [email protected]
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