Team Topologies - Manuel Pais & Trond Hjorteland

OSWA is proud to present Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies and Trond Hjorteland from our community. Manuel will share his insights about the blockers and pitfalls of fast flow, while Trond will talk about how Team Topologies fit in a socio-technical setting. This is a good opportunity for architects to understand more about socio-tech and fast flow, and also how architects can work with and closer to teams. Understanding how to facilitate and position architecture within your organisation is important in order to create fast flow while also creating better software.

TIME & DATE
Thursday 21st. March, at 17:30 - 19:00
We will provide pizza and drinks, including vegetarian options.

Meeting room:
Enter from Universitetsgata 2, up the stairs to the 3rd floor. Our organisers will be there to guide you.

ABSTRACTS
Manuel Pais: Fast Flow - Blockers & Pitfalls

Based on his experience helping customers with Team Topologies during the last 4 years, Manuel will (rant about) share what are the most common blockers to fast flow in tech organizations. From the classics originally illustrated in the Team Topologies book to the "new kids on the block", some of which come from misinterpretations of ideas in the book! This (rant) talk also contains personal reflections on what we would have done differently if we had to rewrite the book today.

Trond Hjorteland: Team Topologies within a socio-technical context

Team Topologies with its four team types and three interaction modes have become ubiquitous in the IT industry in record time and the book has become a best-seller since its release in 2019. Many organizations default to these patterns when either creating new teams or restructuring the existing ones as part of a digital transformation. The main issue though is that it is often done top-down, by managers and leaders that often have the least knowledge about the domain and the work that is done, leading to many suboptimal team designs that struggle to adapt and adjust as they should.

In this talk, we will bring in an age-old and well-proven approach to team redesign that is founded on good social sciences and employs participative design. The core idea is that the people doing the work know best how to create a design that suits them, creating a team topology where people are more committed, the technology operates closer to its potential and the organization performs better overall while adapting more readily to change in its environment.