Masterclass - Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies

Masterclass
Written By ConfluxHQ Admin

Accelerate the adoption and evolution of fast flow and Team Topologies within your organization through deep insights into key battle-tested ideas and techniques. Put these ideas and techniques into practice in your own context through guided exercises and discussions.

Regular Price: £18,000 £15,000 | Limited to 18 participants

Secure your 2024 pricing before 31st December 2024

Product Code: P659a

 

Success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies

Group Training

 

“I really appreciated the highly interactive way of working with the two expert facilitators from Conflux and the insights they gave in do’s and don’t when practicing team topologies. These discussions helped me to see the contexts where Team Topologies is suitable and made me realize that Team Topologies is more a pattern language than it is a framework, providing adaptability for organizations pursuing digital excellence. Highly recommended.”

— Pieter Reijniers, Digital Transformation Expert and Coach

 

The business impact

While many organizations understand the theoretical benefits of optimizing for fast flow, concrete evidence from enterprise-scale implementations is now emerging, showing remarkable improvements in both operational efficiency and business outcomes.

Organizations optimizing for fast flow see remarkable results:

  • 73% increase in flow velocity (JP Morgan)

  • 60% reduction in dependencies across 7,500 colleagues

  • 58% faster revenue growth in aligned organizations

  • 72% higher profitability compared to competitors

Read the full article: The ROI of Fast Flow: Real-World Impact on Enterprise Performance

Eliminate hidden costs and accelerate transformation

Many organizations struggle to realize the full potential of their technology investments. After decades of treating IT as a cost center, leadership teams often miss critical opportunities in:

• Parallel exploration and innovation

• Autonomous team effectiveness

• API-driven architecture

• Dynamic team and system boundaries

The cost is significant: just one hour of daily wait time costs a medium-sized organization $8 million annually in lost productivity and delayed value delivery. These organizations need the tools to eliminate these hidden costs and accelerate their transformation.

This Masterclass bridges this gap, providing:

• Practical techniques for immediate implementation

• Tools to demonstrate fast flow value to stakeholders

• Frameworks for meaningful organizational change

• Proven approaches from Fortune 500 transformations

Deep insights from real-world implementations

Curated by Matthew Skelton, CEO at Conflux and co-author of Team Topologies, this Masterclass distills critical success patterns from global customer engagements. Move beyond theory to practical, proven approaches that accelerate fast flow adoption within your organization.

Based on direct experience since 2017, years of consulting and implementation expertise have been condensed into four high-impact sessions. Learn how to overcome common barriers to fast flow, understand platform dynamics at scale, and master team interaction patterns that drive organizational success.

What you'll gain

  • Deep insights into fast flow and Team Topologies.

  • Hands-on experience of tools and techniques, guided by a Conflux practitioner.

  • Confidence in explaining the nuances of fast flow and Team Topologies.

  • Use the Team Topologies modeling shapes to explore organization dynamics.

  • Gain advanced awareness of platform dynamics for fast flow.

  • Begin to facilitate an Independent Service Heuristics session within your organization.

  • Map some fast flow skills pathways for your organization.

Format and delivery

  • 4 x 90-minute focused sessions

  • Up to 18 people in-person or online

  • Interactive exercises and discussions

  • Real-world implementation examples

  • Collaborative digital workspace using Miro

  • Available in-person or online in a single day, or spread across two days for online sessions

Session structure

The workshop takes place over four 90-minute segments, making it easy to schedule in a single day (in-person) or in busy calendars across multiple time zones (online). The in-person version is run in a single day; the online version can be run in the same day or spread across two days.

Session 1: The importance of the evolution of team interactions and team boundaries

  • We begin by revisiting Chapters 7 and 8 of the Team Topologies (TT) book and the implications of the team interaction modes, how the Team API can help cross-team communication, and the importance of organizational sensing. 

  • Moving on, we then use the open-access TT team modeling shapes to become familiar with thinking in terms of the evolution of teams and interactions, not simply a target design. 

  • We end our first session with a group critique of some team interaction diagrams based on different industry contexts to help embed learning outcomes.

Session 2: Success with platforms and platform thinking for fast flow

  • Session 2 begins by reviewing the purpose of a platform from a TT perspective and establishing some useful metrics and attitudes for platform success.

  • We follow with a deep dive into the implications of “fractal” (self-similar, nested) platforms as defined by TT.

  • We then explore some advanced patterns for platforms around multiple parallel product/service offerings, sharing or “harvesting” proven solutions, horizon scanning using Core Domain Charts, data consumption (touching on techniques like Data Mesh), and product composition.

  • We finish our second session by looking at an emerging approach we call Desynchronous which helps organizations to scale without the slow-downs associated with large internal platforms of the past.

Session 3: Finding good boundaries for flow using Independent Service Heuristics

  • Our third session starts with reviewing the fracture planes for fast flow from Chapter 6 of TT, and the pros and cons of different fracture planes in a fast flow context. 

  • We then take a detailed look at the use of Independent Service Heuristics (ISH) as a technique for finding good boundaries for fast flow.

  • Session 3 finishes by exploring how to use ISH and how to facilitate discovery sessions using ISH and related techniques.

Session 4: Skills paths and aptitudes for fast flow + wrap-up

  • Our final session begins by exploring the skills pathways needed for typical roles in IT and software delivery when embarking on a fast flow transition.

  • We then discuss the challenges and opportunities around skills gaps and aptitudes, and how we can use market sensing techniques to help avoid skills stagnation.

  • We round off session 4 and the masterclass by reviewing the success patterns we have covered throughout and answering any remaining questions. Prerequisites and equipment needed

Who this is for

  • Leaders and managers driving change

  • Enterprise architects and senior engineers

  • Agile coaches and transformation leads

  • Platform and product teams

  • UX/UI and technical decision-makers

Ideal for organizations looking to use fast flow as a competitive advantage.

Prerequisites for success

Equipment needed

Attendees will need to bring a laptop with a fast network connection and a modern web browser installed (Chrome, Firefox, or Safari preferred). Before the Masterclass you should visit https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lNhS2MY=/ to test that your laptop and browser work well with Miro, the digital whiteboard tool used in both the in-person and online versions of the Masterclass. 

You should see a screen similar to this when you visit the test URL above:

 

Prerequisites

Attendees will get the most benefit from the workshop by completing the prerequisite activities. The ‘Essential’ activities will only take around 20 minutes to complete. The ‘Recommended’ activities may take 40 minutes to complete in total but will enable a deeper, more valuable learning experience. 

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Ready to transform your organization?

Regular Price: £18,000 £15,000 | Limited to 18 participants | Credit card payments are accepted

Secure your 2024 pricing before 31st December 2024

Book a conversation with our team to secure your masterclass spot and begin your fast flow journey.

We have flexible contract and payment terms. Contact our Sales team at sales@confluxhq.com to begin the purchase process, quoting code “P659a”.

FAQs

  1. Who should attend the workshop?

    • Leaders, managers, change agents, members of Enabling teams, Agile Coaches, architects, senior engineers, UX/UI and product managers, or any other decision-makers involved in building and running software services.

  2. How is the session delivered?

    • The session is delivered either in-person or online using video call (Google Meet, Zoom, or MS Teams). In either case, we use Miro as a collaborative digital whiteboard. 

  3. How do I buy this session?

    • Contact sales@confluxhq.com and mention the “P659a Masterclass - success patterns for fast flow and Team Topologies”.

  4. How does the Conflux engagement model work?

    • Conflux live sessions can work in two different ways: as an introductory session or as a more extended and in-depth exploration of the techniques over several weeks. Discover more in our Engagement model. 

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