Upcoming Events
Success Patterns for Fast Flow and Team Topologies
Want to explore the success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies? Gain insight and knowledge from Conflux’s award-winning digital transformation programs.
The principles of fast flow and Team Topologies are often unfamiliar to many organizations. This Masterclass, led by Elizabeth Ayer and Christopher Marsh, provides practical techniques to demonstrate and embed fast flow approaches, accelerating the adoption of Team Topologies. Gain deep insights, hands-on experience, and confidence in explaining and implementing these concepts for meaningful organizational change.
Spotlight: Find Boundaries for Fast Flow Using Independent Service Heuristics - NZ/AU/Pacific
Transform your organization's flow with Independent Service Heuristics (ISH), a rapid, business-friendly approach to discovering and evolving team and service boundaries. Gain practical insights to adopt a "never done" mindset, encourage continuous evolution and experimentation to stay ahead of the competition.
This Spotlight session gives attendees a deep understanding of the importance of boundaries for fast flow. Led by Conflux experts, you'll explore the relationship between boundaries and fast flow, with hands-on exercises applying Independent Service Heuristics to real-life scenarios.
Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies - NZ/AU/Pacific
Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization through deep insights into the key ideas and techniques that work well "on the ground".
The principles of fast flow underlying Team Topologies are unfamiliar to people in many organizations. Decades of treating IT like a cost center have left execs and management with incomplete awareness of the benefits of parallel exploration, autonomous teams, ubiquitous APIs, and ongoing exploration of team and system boundaries.
This Masterclass provides practical techniques that help to demonstrate and embed fast flow approaches within an organization, thereby accelerating the adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies.
Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies -EMEA/Eastern
Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization through deep insights into the key ideas and techniques that work well "on the ground".
This Masterclass provides practical techniques that help to demonstrate and embed fast flow approaches within an organization, thereby accelerating the adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies.
Spotlight: Find Boundaries for Fast Flow Using Independent Service Heuristics - EMEA/Eastern
Transform your organization's flow with Independent Service Heuristics (ISH), a rapid, business-friendly approach to discovering and evolving team and service boundaries. Gain practical insights to adopt a "never done" mindset, encourage continuous evolution and experimentation to stay ahead of the competition.
This Spotlight session gives attendees a deep understanding of the importance of boundaries for fast flow. Led by Conflux experts, you'll explore the relationship between boundaries and fast flow, with hands-on exercises applying Independent Service Heuristics to real-life scenarios.
Live Webinar with Kinetic Change™
Join Matthew Skelton and Erika Lenz as they explore the challenges of organizational transformation in today's complex landscape. Organizations often face multiple, conflicting change initiatives, resulting in employee burnout, struggling middle managers, and inefficiencies costing millions.
On-Demand Webinar: Benchmark your Organizational Effectiveness and Alignment
Watch our recent webinar provides an opportunity to access our brand-new benchmarking tool, which allows organizations to assess their performance in key areas that contribute to thriving environments, particularly in delivering at speed. Our industry-leading benchmarking tool will help you assess your organization for effectiveness and alignment with fast flow in IT/digital delivery, software services, innovation, and knowledge work in general.
Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024
See the talk slides below!
"Cold Start: Fast Flow - Using External Suppliers to Bootstrap a Nimble, Flow-Centric Organization"
Matthew Skelton, CEO at Conflux and co-author of the best-selling book Team Topologies, recently delivered an engaging interactive session at Red Hat Summit: Connect.
Featured Session:
In his talk, Matthew addressed a crucial challenge: How can we “cold start” an organization with limited digital delivery
capability with a hiring freeze and turn it into a beacon of excellence in digital services? He shared innovative strategies for leveraging external suppliers to rapidly build digital delivery capacity. By utilizing commercial agreements and effective delivery practices, organizations can develop a flow-centric architecture that enhances cross-organizational learning.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees discovered strategies for building digital delivery capabilities in challenging envi<ronments.
Insights were shared on integrating external suppliers to complement in-house talent effectively.
The significance of supplier boundaries in fostering a modern, flow-centric architecture was highlighted.
Participants recognized the pivotal role of enterprise procurement in selecting suppliers and establishing contract frameworks that support a flow-centric operating model.
What to Expect:
Attendees engaged with peers and industry leaders.
The latest innovations from Red Hat were showcased.
Collaborative discussions focused on addressing current challenges and exploring future opportunities.
Thank you for joining us at Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024! This transformative journey equipped attendees with the tools to steer their organizations toward a successful digital future.
Project to Product Summit 2024
The inaugural Project to Product Summit is positioned as a pivotal gathering for professionals navigating the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in product delivery. This two-day event will explore essential strategies and practices that facilitate a successful transition from traditional project management to a more product-oriented framework, enabling organizations to deliver enhanced value in the digital age.
CTO Academy Q&A
The cost of poor organizational alignment is huge, and typically gets worse with the need to deliver quickly. How can your organization achieve effective alignment without slowing down or hampering innovation? Join us to hear from Matthew Skelton - co-author of the award-winning book Team Topologies - to learn about vital approaches to build alignment, trust, and engagement in the context of fast flow.
Live Webinar with robusta
Industry leaders Matthew Skelton (Conflux) and Natan Yellin (robusta) discuss how AI can be used within platform engineering to aid fast flow. Watch now to learn how these innovative tools can transform your DevOps and Platform Engineering practices in 2025.
In this webinar, we explore the next generation of Platform Engineering tools powered by AI that embody the principles of fast flow.
DevOps Days London 2024
In this talk, Matthew Skelton - CEO at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies - explores the key learnings from 10 years of Team Topologies and State of DevOps Reports and outlines key steps that organizations can take to improve IT delivery performance.
By combining learnings from State of DevOps Reports and Team Topologies together with principles championed by the DevOps community, organizations can navigate a route to business agility via a fast flow operating model.
Fast Flow Conference
We’re excited to announce that Conflux is stepping up as the PLATINUM SPONSOR of the Fast Flow Conference! This event will dive into the strategies and methodologies outlined in Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Don’t miss our interactive workshop on enabling fast flow through Active Knowledge Diffusion and the Adapt Together™️ approach—join us for an inspiring experience!
Agile Yorkshire Leeds 2024
Join our expert for an evening of learning and networking as Matthew Skelton, Conflux and co-author of the best-selling book Team Topologies, explores techniques and metrics to help you untangle your software delivery process.
In this talk, Matthew will delve into techniques and metrics to help you streamline your software delivery process. You'll learn about real-world examples of organizations that have successfully applied Team Topologies and related approaches to decouple teams and improve flow.
Efficient organizations via fast flow
Join our expert, Matthew Skelton, Conflux co-author of 'Team Topologies' for an exclusive 1 day leadership masterclass where you'll learn the latest strategies and best practices from the book ‘Team Topologies’, to create a nimble, humane organization that delivers digital services at speed and scale.
SHIPITCON
Matthew will be talking at SHIP IT CON 2024 in Dublin on the topic of “DevOps Topologies, 10 years on”.
Conflux will be a Gold Sponsor at SHIP IT CON 2024!
Sneak Peek: Efficient Organizations via Fast Flow
Join our expert, Matthew Skelton, Conflux co-author of 'Team Topologies' and Royd Brayshay, NewRedo Founder for a FREE 30-minute online webinar, preview of our highly anticipated "Efficient Organizations via Fast Flow" masterclass for leaders in Leeds on September 4th!
CTO Life Line
Matthew will be speaking with Daniel and Noah at CTO Life Line discussing the interesting topic of “Are Organizations fit for humans?”
10 in 10 Charity Walk
The Conflux team are joining Bruntwood is their annual 10 in 10 Charity Walk to raise money for the local charity, Zest.
Zest are a Leeds based charity who work to raise awareness of the inequalities within Leeds and how this can impact upon the health and life expectancy of those within the region.
For more information on Zest follow this link
Software Engineering Leadership @ WRK - Meetup & Social
📣 Event Topic, ‘Silence isn’t golden: how psychological safety is fundamental to high performing teams’ facilitated by Clement Pickering, an expert coach and founder / director at Feltic Ltd
Team Topologies Masterclass: Success Patterns for Fast Flow
This Masterclass provides practical techniques that help to demonstrate and embed fast flow approaches within an organization, thereby accelerating the adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies. Attendees will be better able to explain and demonstrate tools and techniques from Team Topologies and place these in context for meaningful organizational change.
Speaker at DTX Manchester 2024 - Beyond the Spotify Model: Using Team Topologies for fast flow and organisation evolution - Matthew Skelton
Founder and Principal at Conflux, Matthew Skelton, gave the keynote talk at FastFlowConf 2023.
Acceler8IT 2024
Alongside his Keynote he will also be running the succesful Masterclass “Success Patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies”. The Masterclass distills practical insights from real-world customer engagements across the globe to uncover the essential success patterns for the adoption of fast flow and Team Topologies.
The DevOps Conference
Hosted by Eficode this event includes an array of international tech thought leaders who will be speaking throughout the day. There will be opportunities to meet the speakers, network with peers and discover tools and solutions to take your business to the next level.
Masterclass: Team Topologies + MACH = Agility
Hosted by BT, and sponsored by Grid Dynamics, NewStore and commercetools, the masterclass will be led by Matthew Skelton. Co-author of the book Team Topologies, his book has been named a “must-read for anyone in a technical leadership role”. He’ll be joined by technology leaders from BT, The Very Group & MOO, who'll share their learnings from integrating both the delivery principles of Team Topologies and the architectural principles of MACH.
All attendees will also receive a copy of Matthew's book ahead of time, delivered direct to your doorstep.
Nearform Webinar
Matthew joins a panel of expert practitioners as they talk through real-life examples of shaping team functions to deliver rapid, consistent and sustainable outcomes.
29 November 2023 at 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
Register for the event here
Leading Complexity, online
Join us for another set of amazing master classes and you will get front row tickets to these online sessions, giving you the opportunity to listen to and interact with the speakers who will give you insights from their field of expertise. Besides that, you will get access to the recordings of the sessions and you will be invited to our Slack channel to continue the discussions with the other participants.
DevOpsDays, Oslo
In this talk, Matthew Skelton - founder at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies - explores some of the pitfalls that organizations stumble into when trying to adopt the Team Topologies ideas, together with principles and effective techniques that work well when moving towards fast flow with Team Topologies
Masterclass - Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies - July 2023
Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization through deep insights into the key ideas and techniques that work well “on the ground”. Put into practice the ideas and techniques through guided exercises and discussions.
Keynote talk at FastFlowConf 2023 - The Fast Flow Organization - Using Team Topologies Outside of IT and Software, Matthew Skelton
Founder and Principal at Conflux, Matthew Skelton, gave the keynote talk at FastFlowConf 2023.