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Introducing Org Topologies for evolving ecosystem agility

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Introducing Org Topologies for evolving  ecosystem agility

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For the first time ever in Australia, learn about a visual language for communicating the direction of your organisation's development. This is our second event as Agility and Value Sydney.

Session description
Agilists have been creating lots of teams that work independently, a.k.a. autonomously. This has unintentionally led to creating new silos. Silos around services, internal platforms and other components. Silos around steps in the business process. This division of team scope and skills is usually considered the Agile norm until management questions why they are not realising the Agile promise at a scale that matters for business results.

The good news is that we now have a powerful tool for visualising your current state as well as designing and driving your journey toward what’s best for your business.

In this talk we introduce to Australia Org Topologies from Alexey Krivitsky, Roland Flemm and Craig Larman. Org Topologies is a framework-agnostic visual language for communicating the direction of your organisation’s development. We illustrate how it works using examples that take you from typical starting points for Agile adoption toward the most adaptive multi-team organisation conceivable.

Whether you are an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, transformation lead or manager, this session will provide insights on the level of agility that your current structure has and how you can accelerate conversations about improving it using a simple visual language.

Please don’t confuse this with Team Topologies – it’s a completely different perspective. In fact, you can gain insights about Team Topologies by visualising it using Org Topologies.

For a primer on Org Topologies, download the Org Topologies primer from: https://www.orgtopologies.com/

Topics

  1. Introducing the Org Topologies axes.
  2. Archetypes with low adaptability visualised.
  3. Archetypes with high adaptability.
  4. How you as a coach or change agent can use Org Topologies to improve your Agile ecosystem.

Learning outcomes
• Awareness of previously unrecognised silos due to the (deliberately limited) scope and skills of their teams.
• High-level familiarity with a powerful new tool – Org Topologies.
• Familiarity with how several popular Agile team structures look on the Org Topologies map – likely including one similar to their own.
• Understanding of the role that they play in using this tool as the centrepiece for improving their organisational ecosystem.

When
5:30pm (AEDT) Doors open for networking over pizza and drinks
6:00pm Welcome
6:05pm Introducing Org Topologies for evolving ecosystem agility
6:45pm Q&A & Follow-up
7:05pm Networking
7:30pm Close

Venue
We're delighted to be at The Onset's office very close to Central Station in Surry Hills. Come along for networking over pizza and drink before the magic of Open Space. Be prepared to be surprised!

Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
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Appreciations
Thanks very much to The Onset for providing the venue, food and drinks. In particular, thank you to Alyse Lucey for leading the logistics at the venue.

The Onset connects tech talent with innovative and inspiring career opportunities as Australia's leading technology and executive recruiter. Onset has partnered with some of Australia's most successful startup, scaleup and enterprise businesses, as they build and grow high-impact teams or go through digital transformation.

Thanks to the Adapt WithStyle team for organising and promoting this event as well as ordering the pizza!

Adapt WithStyle is Scrum WithStyle reborn to offer consulting to product development scale-ups interested in extending their competitive advantage through scaled agility and value maximisation. Check out the new Adapt WithStyle website.

Thanks to Scrum Alliance for sponsoring the food and soft drinks.

We are proud to be an officially recognised Scrum Alliance User Group. Scrum Alliance is the leading membership association dedicated to advancing agile practices globally. Visit scrumalliance.org to learn more

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