Designing Adaptive and Effective Organizations with Team Topologies Masterclass

Are you observing that your organization is taking more time to release new products into the market, or is it taking more time than before to adapt to new regulations? Your organization could most likely be more effective in adapting to new demands. This masterclass explores how a different management model and organizational structures can improve your company’s adaptability, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Organizations increasingly seek enhanced business agility to adapt to new market demands and technological breakthroughs. This masterclass focuses on why an organization must adapt to technological changes, market conditions, and customer expectations.

Attendees will explore various real-life industry examples of organizations that have adapted their structures to achieve new levels of business agility, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations while fostering a more humane workplace.

The masterclass is designed to be interactive, allowing participants to reflect on these examples and their organizational contexts and engage in discussions and activities that underline practical applications.

What is this masterclass about

The world is changing quickly, with new user needs emerging rather quickly. New technologies like Artificial Intelligence have new applications; before that, they were Data, Cloud, or IoT. Those technologies enable organizations to create new products and expand to new markets. However, some organizations cannot quickly adapt to these changes and are looking for different ways to organize themselves.

This masterclass explores the challenges above, where organizations want to be more adaptive and effective to the changing conditions. Using flow-based approaches such as Team Topologies, you will analyze and discuss different use cases and the options to evolve the organization. The masterclass takes a holistic approach, discussing the different design trade-offs for organization structures, such as platforms. At the same time, we look into modern management models that support flow and create more efficiency in the company.

At the end of the masterclass, you can apply the concepts and models for your context. What would be the implications of instilling a product mindset, modern engineering practices, and a management model to match? If you are exploring alternatives to your operating model and want to increase your company’s adaptability, effectiveness, and efficiency, this masterclass will provide you with the insights!

Learning goals

• Understand the importance of value streams and networks of value and how different organizational structures can impact those
• Explore how platforms can encapsulate value streams and provide economics of scale for other internal teams to leverage
• Discover what are the principles for alternative management models to support resilience and adaptability in an organization
• Apply the Team Topologies principles and practices, and analyze what are the different trade-offs for the organization structure

What do I need to know

It would be best if you had experience managing teams from product or engineering. During the masterclass, your experience will be valuable when we explore the use cases. If you don’t know Team Topologies, don’t worry. I will explain what it is and what it is not. The masterclass is hands-on, and you will learn by doing.

Audience

The audience of the masterclass is executives, senior managers, and managers of organizations looking to evolve their operating models. They seek to improve business agility by instilling a product mindset and having engineering excellence to support their operations.

If you want to discuss your challenges in more detail, book a call.