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.

What you'll master

• Discover and evaluate flow-oriented boundaries for teams and services

• Apply ISH to visualize and assess candidate value streams

• Master boundary types: user needs, fracture planes, and micro-enterprises

• Build capability for continuous boundary evolution

• Drive competitive advantage through optimized team structures

Price & discounts

Standard Rate: £800 per person (limited availability)

Early Bird Rate: £650 (available until November 30, 2024, at 12 PM GTM)

Group Discount: Available for 3+ attendees (use code GROUP)

Payment Method: Credit card payments accepted

Program structure & Times

The Spotlight session will take place over two days, with each session lasting three hours. Join us on January 21th and 22th, 2025, from 21:00 to 00:00 UK Time. If you need to convert these times to your local time zone, feel free to use the Time Zone Converter.

• Time zones

  • Pacific Time, PT, PST (UTC -8) 8 hour(s) behind

    13:00 - 16:00

  • New Zealand Daylight Time, NZDT (UTC +13) 13 hour(s) ahead

    10:00 - 13:00

  • Australian Eastern Time, AET * AEDT (UTC +11) 11 hour(s) ahead

    08:00 - 11:00

• Day 1: Session 1. Why we need boundaries for fast flow, and how to identify those (2 hours)

     - Deep dive into boundary types and fast flow relationships

     - Practical analysis of fracture planes using your scenarios

     - Hands-on boundary identification exercises

     - Generate actionable insights for your organization

• Day 1: Session 2. The need for boundaries to be analyzed through different lenses (1 hour)

    - Platform metrics and success patterns

    - Fractal platforms exploration

    - Advanced patterns for platforms

    - Desynchronous approaches for scaling

• Day 2: Session 2. The need for boundaries to be analyzed through different lenses (1 hours)

     - Master micro-enterprise concepts and implications

     - Apply user needs analysis to your context

     - Generate insights through different boundary lenses

     - Evaluate real organizational challenges

• Day 2: Session 3. Put Independent Service Heuristics to work, and Q&A (2 hours)

     - Combine insights from previous sessions

     - Evaluate candidate value streams

     - Create implementation roadmaps

     - Build your organization's evolution capability

Key benefits

• Practical tools to evaluate and evolve organizational boundaries

• Capability to identify and visualize candidate value streams

• Enhanced decision-making for team and software architecture

• "Never done" mindset for continuous evolution

• Competitive advantage through optimized team structures

Perfect for

Members of Enabling teams supporting boundary evolution ~ Leaders and managers driving organizational change ~ Agile Coaches ~ Architects ~ Senior engineers ~ Product managers ~ Engineering managers ~ Business leaders

Prerequisites

Attendees will get the most benefit from the workshop by completing the prerequisite activities. The ‘Essential’ activities will only take around 1-2 hours to complete. The ‘Recommended’ activities may take a few days to complete in total but will enable a deeper, more valuable learning experience.

Essential

• Read the article “Finding good stream boundaries with Independent Service Heuristics” by Rich Allen and Matthew Skelton: https://teamtopologies.com/ish - a field story by the blog post authors, where they enable Zalora to explore candidate value streams. (15 minutes)

• At Conflux, we use Miro for our online workshops. If you’re not already familiar with using Miro, you can quickly learn the basics with this short course from Miro: https://academy.miro.com/getting-started-with-miro

Recommended

• Watch the video “Independent Service Heuristics: a rapid, business-friendly approach to flow-oriented boundaries” TBC (40 minutes) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hwkDyL6Zs

• Complete one or more online video courses on the Team Topologies Academy: https://academy.teamtopologies.com/ 

• Read through and discuss two or more case studies from https://teamtopologies.com/examples - how might these apply to your context?

• Read the Team Topologies book: https://teamtopologies.com/book

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