Matthew Skelton on his two books: Team Topologies & remote team interactions, getting value to customers on an ongoing basis, Team APIs and interactions modes

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On this week’s episode of the Xagility Podcast, Matthew Skelton tells all about his books: Team Topologies: organising business and technology teams for fast flow and Remote Team Interactions Workbook.

On the agenda:

1. Obstacles to fast flow
2. Is team topologies optimised for fast flow?
3. Sociotechnical systems
4. How to get value to customers on an ongoing basis?
5. Collaboration and finding good boundaries for flow
6. Team interaction modes
7. Team topologies and systems thinking
8. Team topologies and cybernetics
9. The influence of DevOps tooling for software teams
10. Conway’s Law: What is it and why it matters? & The Reverse Conway Manoeuvre
11. The implied architecture of flow & good software architecture
12. Interaction modes
13. Enabling teams & measuring their success
14. Streamlined teams
15. What kind of incentives do we need to put in place for the experts in the enabling teams?
16. Tracking dependencies
17. Team APIs
18. Tangible benefits software engineers can expect from implementing team topologies/ what do you tell employees/executives who ask how soon can we expect these results?
19. How important is training?
20. Cognitive load
21. Matthew’s attitude to keeping people busy

About Matthew:

Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxhq.com), he specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability and organization dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.

Recognized by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Team Topologies (IT Revolution Press, 2019), Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016), and Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016), along with several key reports on SRE.

Matthew founded Conflux in 2017 to offer training and consulting to organizations building and running software systems.

Matthew’s Website: https://blog.matthewskelton.net/

Team Topologies Website: https://teamtopologies.com/

Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewskelton/

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