What do you do on the weekend? Prepare for the week ahead.
I'm finalizing my workshop gear for another #TeamTopologies and #FastFlow 2-day workshop for a cloud platform at a large organization.
I love these challenges. Finding leverage points for a platform's evolution to increase its effectiveness for the consumers. Plus, it is a regulated industry; we can enable compliance and speed at scale.
If you want to improve flow with your org, drop me a message. ✍️
Happy Sunday!
I’ve published a white paper: Lean Thinking in Modern Software Delivery.
It’s about moving away from "managing" delivery and starting to engineer flow. No sales pitch. No proprietary framework. Just the evidence.
If you’re tired of the "Feature Factory" mindset, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
Read the full paper here: https://matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2025/12/12/lean-thinking-in-modern-software-delivery/
#Agile #SoftwareDevelopment #DORA #Lean #ContinuousDelivery #TeamTopologies
Both Adapting to Change and Delivering Reliably
[Moved to https://www.o2sn.dk/2023/09/28/both-adapting-to-change-and-delivering-reliably/ ]
Communicate Curiosity
[moved to https://www.o2sn.dk/2022/11/21/communicate-curiosity/ ]
#atWork #business #communication #curiosity #leadership #teamTopologies
#268 – Who Brings in New Knowledge?
moved to https://www.o2sn.dk/2021/11/17/268-who-brings-in-new-knowledge/
#atWork #coach #facilitation #knowledge #leadership #team #teamTopologies #trends
Why do valid architectural designs fail to get implemented? It’s rarely technical. It’s usually "socio-technical."
Join the next online InfoQ Certified Architect Program cohort with Luca Mezzalira to master the people side of architecture.
📅 Starts Jan 19
🎓 5-week online cohort
Details: https://bit.ly/4pPIiPu
#SoftwareArchitecture #InfoQ #ICSAET #TechLeadership #EngineeringManagement #TeamTopologies
Group access is available for cohorts of five or more. As part of the current winter campaign, group packages are available at a reduced rate (25–40%), depending on cohort size.
Email us for more details: academy@teamtopologies.com
#TeamTopologies #OrganizationalDesign #TeamDynamics #PlatformAsAProduct #ValueStreams #EffectiveTeams
Here a good recap of this with conclusions => https://www.smharter.com/blog/2025/12/08/team-topologies-vs-feature-teams/
Subtitle: How to structure and organise teams and cross-team collaboration around the work and the codebase
#TEAMTOPOLOGIES #FEATURETEAMS #LeSS
#SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment
#SocioTechPractices
The superpower of Team Topologies lies in providing a vocabulary for talking about team structures and interactions.
Its Achilles' heel is being opinionated on exclusive code ownership at team level where shared product codebase ownership is also a valid heuristic.
See
- https://mstdn.social/deck/@lukadotnet/115610220128910374 and
- https://mstdn.social/deck/@lukadotnet/115496742476478660
A look back at @matthewskelton talk on "DDD-Lite", using Independent Service Heuristics from *Team Topologies* to find effective service boundaries. A pragmatic approach for when full DDD feels too involved.
Rewatch the video or listen to the podcast on our website.
#TeamTopologies meets #DDD and #WardleyMapping: Together with Nina Siessegger and Susanne Kaiser, we put the "Architecture for Flow" methodology into practice to reshape our engineering organization at Pirate Ship. #CaseStudy #EngineeringManagement
https://teamtopologies.com/industry-examples/reteaming-for-fast-flow-a-case-study-from-pirate-ship
The silent killer of high-performance teams is overburden (Muri). It’s the invisible pressure that slowly burns out your people and calcifies your architecture.
In the final part of my blog series on Lean Software Delivery, I look beyond the symptoms to expose the source and set out a practical sociotechnical plan to solve it.
Read the full conclusion here: https://matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2025/11/25/the-root-cause-of-overburden/
#CognitiveLoad #DevOps #DomainDrivenDesign #Lean #PlatformEngineering #TeamTopologies #TechnicalDebt
Bryan Ross tackles the goal conflict at the heart of platform problems in this post on golden paths (one size does not fit all!)
https://newsletter.bryanross.me/p/golden-paths-one-size-does-not-fit
🚀 Black Friday starts Monday (Nov 24th) at Team Topologies Academy!
Buy any bundle or two courses, and get the Remote & Hybrid Team Interactions course FREE. Just send us your order confirmation.
I had a great time in London this year for the #FastFlowConf. The folks did a wonderful job with the video of my talk, "Team Topologies is not enough; you need a management model to match!".
You can watch it here:
🌐 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sIcxkbhgVA
If your org is struggling to unlock its full potential, just get in touch!
This is where leadership and management must step in to manage and facilitate the underlying conflict, not the process itself.
The AAP is a structural mechanism, but its success relies entirely on the quality of our collaboration and mutual trust.
#TeamTopologies #ADR #SoftwareArchitecture #collaborativesoftwaredesign
I finally decided to write to make me feel like my quivering existence isn't merely job search anxiety. So what started as a simple book review sorta took on a life of its own!
Since @adrianco turned me on to Architecture for Flow by @suksr, I have been simmering with thoughts about it. I finished it last month and it has shaped what I've answered during interview questions.
But not only that, Susanne has created a great stepping-off point for me to talk about how to treat Incident Management in the context of achieving Architecture for Flow:
https://www.sounding.com/2025/11/06/flow-for-incidents/
#SRE #Incidents #Observability #WardleyMaps #TeamTopologies #DomainDrivenDesign #ArchitectureForFlow
Leanpub book LAUNCH 🚀 User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters by Rich Allen
Watch here: https://youtu.be/maH7lWKKUlc
#books #ebooks #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #UserNeedsMapping #TeamAlignment #FlowOptimization #SocioTechnical #ProductDelivery #SystemThinking #OrganizationalDesign #TeamTopologies #SoftwareLeadership #Leanpub
