From org chart to designed organization: making the invisible visible with business models and teams – DDDEurope

Organizations rarely struggle because of bad org charts; they struggle because the real work, value flows, and constraints are invisible. And that affects how organizations realize value.

This hands‑on session is for practitioners who want to connect strategy, business models, and team design. You will learn the essentials of the Business Model Canvas and collaboratively model how a fictitious company creates value. You will also get an introduction to the core ideas of Team Topologies, and using it to design teams and their interactions to deliver value based on the outputs of the Business Model Canvas.

This session is ideal for engineering managers, product leaders, agile coaches, architects, and anyone involved in organizational design who wants practical tools rather than abstract org‑chart debates. If you attend the hands-on, you will leave with a simple, yet powerful pattern: start from the business model, make value creation visible, and then intentionally design teams.