In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations strive to build and scale high-performing technology teams that can deliver value with speed and efficiency. To achieve this, a combination of effective team organization and continuous improvement practices is essential. In this talk, we will explore how the concepts of Team Topologies and DevOps can be leveraged from the perspective of an enabling team, such as an agile coach, to empower organizations and teams.

1. Empowering Teams for High-Performance
Unleashing the Potential of Team Topologies and DevOps
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2. Jacob Duijzer
- IT Consultant
- Agile Coach
- Team Topologies Advocate
- Enabling Team Lead
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobduijzer/
https://github.com/jacobduijzer
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4. Blockers of “Fast Flow”
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- Dependencies
- Focus
- Unclarity of requirements
- Unclear boundaries
- Hand-offs
- Slow decision-making
- Cognitive Load
- Professional ways of working
- IT vs. Business
- Etc.
Flow: A stream of related updates or alterations to a software
service or system, usually aligned to user goals or other core
focus of the business.

5. But, how to unblock?
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6. Team Topologies: the core ideas
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9. Team-First Thinking
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10. Team Topologies - Conway’s Law
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Any organization that designs a system
(defined broadly) will produce a design whose
structure is a copy of the organization's
communication structure.
—Melvin E. Conway

11. So, what can change look like?
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12. What’s next?
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13. Back to the basics
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14. You are a leader!
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15. Measuring value
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16. Cognitive Load
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17. Sharing Knowledge
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18. Recap
- Team Topologies is not a well-defined, clear path, it rather gives us a
language to talk about organizational design.
- Improving your organization needs more than just Team Topologies!
- Empowering teams is about working as a whole, with focus on outcome.
- It’s about leadership, better way of working, relentless improvement.
- Change takes time!
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19. Thanks!
Feel free to contact me, if you have
questions, or want to know more!
Also: I can give you a 10% discount
code for trainings on the Team
Topologies website.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobduijzer/
https://github.com/jacobduijzer
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20. Sources & Inspiration
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- Team Api - Team Topologies GitHub
- Team Shapes Templates - Team Topologies GitHub
- DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
- TechLead.Journal() Podcast: A Developer-Centric Approach to Measuring and Improving
Productivity - Margaret-Anne Storey & Abi Noda
- Spotify Squad Health Check