Guidebooks

Expert guides for senior leaders

Guidebook for Empowered Excellence
Matthew Skelton - Conflux Matthew Skelton - Conflux

Guidebook for Empowered Excellence

Drawing on principles of organizational design and continuous flow, our guide explores how aligning work directly to value consumers unlocks operational agility and significantly improves organizational outcomes.

This guidebook is designed for senior leaders and decision-makers in medium- to large-sized organizations facing challenges related to scalability, speed, and organizational complexity.

What's inside:

  • Why traditional organizational structures create friction (and what to do about it)

  • How to align teams directly to value consumers for faster delivery

  • The role of a North Star Metric in driving organizational focus

  • Team Topologies patterns that simplify complex delivery

Download our definitive guidebook for senior leaders on organizational design and value flow. Authored by Conflux CEO, Matthew Skelton, this document provides the strategic blueprint to unlock operational agility and achieve outsized outcomes at speed and scale.

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Mini-book: Optimizing for fast flow
Matthew Skelton - Conflux Matthew Skelton - Conflux

Mini-book: Optimizing for fast flow

Fast flow is the key to happy and successful software teams.

But, how is fast flow created? And how do you achieve fast flow without also adding additional pressure on the team? Even better, achieve fast flow within a humanistic environment of empowered, autonomous team members with a shared purpose.

Discover more in this PDF mini-book.

In this mini-book:

  • Richard James sets out the need for continuous improvement with reference to lessons learned from Nationwide Building Society. The article gives a fascinating overview of the journey to continuous improvement and the ups and downs along the way. In particular, what enabled, inhibited, or didn’t affect flow.

  • Jessica Kerr on achieving true observability, the best use of telemetry, and the importance of sociotechnical mirroring for fast flow and value creation. She also sets out the truly effective way to measure ‘code quality’.

  • Audun Fauchald Strand and Truls Jørgensen on how to achieve alignment (of missions, teams, architecture, and terminology) whilst also maintaining autonomy. And what is the real role, function, and place of IT within a business.

  • Emily Webber on the value that can be realized in organizations through Communities of Practice.

  • Sophie Weston on psychological safety, its relationship to fast flow, and the business benefits of creating a psychologically safe workplace.

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Mini-book: Modern Software Delivery
Matthew Skelton - Conflux Matthew Skelton - Conflux

Mini-book: Modern Software Delivery

The rapid pace of change across IT leaves many organizations struggling to keep up. The complementary practices of Continuous Delivery, Operability, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) offer proven ways to make software delivery effective and responsive.

Discover more in this PDF mini-book.

In this mini-book:

  • 9 ways organizations screw up continuous delivery

  • How to find the right DevOps tools for your team

  • 5 proven operability techniques for software teams

  • Adapt ITIL to DevOps with continual service transition

  • 5 ways site reliability engineering transforms IT Ops

  • SRE in practice: 5 insights from Google's experience

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